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A holiday-week Trump edition focused on the post-election fallout that kept compounding even while the country was trying to exhale.
On December 26, 2020, the Trump orbit was still digging the hole deeper after the election: the president was floating delusional theories about the vote, allies were pressing ever-more desperate legal and political schemes, and the broader effort to overturn Joe Biden’s win kept running into the same wall — reality. The day’s biggest screwups were less about one single explosion than a steady stream of self-inflicted damage that made the effort look both lawless and increasingly unserious.
The common thread is simple: by December 26, Trumpworld had moved far past legitimate post-election contestation and into a campaign of serial denial, pressure, and improvisation that was already failing in public. The more they pushed, the more they exposed how thin the case was.
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Trump spent the day amplifying election-denial claims even as the courts and election officials had already stripped the effort of credibility. The problem for him was no longer just losing — it was that every new claim made the whole operation look more detached from evidence and more dependent on brute-force repetition.
The post-election legal campaign kept shrinking and losing force, with court after court refusing to buy the theory that the election could be undone on Trump’s say-so. By December 26, the operation looked less like a coordinated challenge than a desperate collection of setbacks.
The post-election chaos was putting Republican officials in impossible positions, forcing them to choose between Trump loyalty and basic respect for the results. The longer the president kept the pressure campaign going, the more he dragged his own party into the wreckage.