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2 verified reports published on December 14, 2020.
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The Trump team’s big December 14 play was to manufacture political cover after losing the vote, and that kind of stunt tends to age badly in daylight. Even if some participants dress it up as contingency planning, the paper trail says the real goal was to keep a dead election alive long enough to pressure the next checkpoint. That is not strategy. That is a mess with stationery.
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On December 14, Trump allies in multiple battleground states pressed ahead with alternate elector slates and false paperwork, a move designed to create the appearance of competing outcomes after the election was already lost. The stunt gave Trump’s post-election effort a more organized, document-heavy look, but it also handed critics a clean example of how far the campaign was willing to go to muddy certified results.
On December 14, Trump allies in several states met and signed false Electoral College certificates claiming he had won. That move created the paper trail that would later underpin criminal charges and public findings of a coordinated attempt to interfere with the transfer of power.