Special counsel scrutinizing February 2020 meeting where Trump praised US election security protections
In the meeting with senior US officials and White House staff, Trump touted his administration’s work to expand the use of paper ballots and support security audits of vote tallies. Trump was so encouraged by federal efforts to protect election systems that he suggested the FBI and Department of Homeland Security hold a press conference to take credit for the work, four people familiar with the meeting told CNN.
“Or does he have some sort of claim that he was acting in good faith, or acting on the reasonable advice of his advisers in contesting the election?” Testimony from the February 2020 meeting suggests that at least in the early part of 2020, Trump embraced the notion that the election would be secure and that he was heeding the advice of his own experts. “It’s one more piece of the larger, ‘[Trump] knew or should have known’ puzzle,’” Honig said.
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