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5 verified reports published on December 29, 2020.
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By the end of December 29, the Trump team had not found a legal miracle; it had found another way to document its own desperation. The result was more institutional resistance, more evidence for investigators, and more proof that the post-election push was not a protest so much as a pressure campaign.
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Freshly documented December 29 notes show Trump and his allies pressing senior Justice Department officials to say the election was corrupt and help tee up a Supreme Court filing. The request failed, but it added another hard record to the growing case that the White House was trying to use the Justice Department as an election-fraud prop.
The White House pushed a draft Supreme Court filing that would have asked the Justice Department to challenge the 2020 election results in six states and force new presidential elections. Career and acting Justice Department officials said the proposal had no legal basis and would not be filed, another public sign that the president’s post-election push was drifting from hardball politics into institutional self-harm.
On December 29, Trump’s team pushed a Supreme Court gambit that would have tried to nullify electoral votes in states he lost. The filing was part legal theater, part desperation, and part sign that the campaign had run out of credible paths.
In Georgia, the post-election challenge was still getting bogged down in procedure, with the court noting the appeal posture prevented the case from moving normally. The delay underscored how little traction the Trump side had even in the state that was supposed to be part of the miracle map.
A federal judge in Georgia rejected an effort to purge roughly 4,000 voters from the rolls ahead of the Senate runoff. The ruling cut against the Trump-aligned effort to keep election chaos alive after the presidential race, and it underscored how quickly the post-loss legal machine was running into hard deadlines and harder judges.