'That's our strategy,' Steve Bannon told a group of associates on October 31, 2020. 'He's gonna declare himself a winner.'
confirms that days before the 2020 presidential election, Republican incumbent Donald Trump planned to prematurely declare victory on the night of November 3 regardless of whether it was true.
"At 10 or 11 o'clock, Trump's gonna walk in the Oval, tweet out, 'I'm the winner. Game over. Suck on that,'" the former White House strategist said later in the conversation.
But the seeds of the"Big Lie" that culminated in a deadly insurrection on January 6, 2021, and continues to wreak havoc on the republic had been sown. As of this week,While the recording of Bannon's October 31 meeting confirms the premeditated nature of Trump's scheme, the broad outlines of his plan to swiftly declare victory and then characterize a come-from-behind win by Biden as illegitimate were widely recognized—and condemned—weeks earlier.
"At which point Trump says: 'See? I told you the whole thing was fraudulent. I told you those mail-in ballots were crooked and we're not going to leave office,'" Sanders said. had been working tirelessly, well before late October 2020, to warn Americans that Trump posed an existential threat to U.S. democracy. by accusing the Democratic Party of rigging the election when the delayed counting of absentee votes eroded his early lead.
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