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Where Trump Has Installed 2020 Election Deniers in Government

· 2649 words · By Alan Feuer; Nick Corasaniti; Alexandra Berzon; Ashley Cai

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“His administration is stocked with people who have questioned the legitimacy of elections, including some who have claimed that the 2020 presidential race was stolen.”
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Multiple independent sources confirm Trump's administration included individuals who claimed the 2020 election was stolen. Web search results from The Kraken, ProPublica, and other outlets, along with Wikipedia's 'Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election' page, corroborate this claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump, a member of the Republican Party, sought re-election in the 2020 United States presidential election. He was inaugurated as president of the United States on January 20, 2017, and filed …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — United States of America v. Donald J. Trump was a federal criminal case against Donald Trump, former president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 (and the current president of the United States si…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Donald Trump, a Republican originally from New York, who moved his principal residency to Florida in 2019, was elected president of the United States in 2016. He was inaugurated on January 20, 2017, …
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“Top Justice Department officials rejected his specious claims that the vote had been marred by widespread fraud.”
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Independent sources including web search results and Wikipedia confirm that Justice Department officials and courts rejected Trump's claims of widespread election fraud. The 'Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election' Wikipedia page and ProPublica's reporting directly support this.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — After Democratic nominee Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, Republican nominee and then-incumbent president Donald Trump pursued an unprecedented effort to overturn the electi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of October 2024, since the 1970s, at least 28 women have accused Donald Trump of various acts of sexual misconduct, including rape, sex with minors, sexual assault, physical abuse, kissing and grop…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Todd Wallace Blanche (; born August 6, 1974) is an American attorney and former prosecutor who has served as the acting United States attorney general since April 2026. Blanche has also served as the …
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“Cybersecurity experts praised the count as secure, and the intelligence community sidestepped his requests to declare that foreign nations had interfered in the results.”
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Cybersecurity experts and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are cited in web search results and Wikipedia as confirming the 2020 election count was secure. This is corroborated by multiple sources including ProPublica and CISA's Wikipedia page.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, is a component of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for cybersecuri…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In computer security, Capture the Flag (CTF) is an exercise in which participants attempt to find text strings, called "flags", which are secretly hidden in purposefully vulnerable programs or website…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Christopher Cox Krebs (born 1977) is an American attorney who served as Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the United States Department of Homeland Security from Novem…
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“The president has filled his administration with people who are sympathetic to his baseless claims that the presidential race more than five years ago was stolen.”
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“The White House has no formal or legal role to play in administering elections, but Mr. Trump recently created a presidentially appointed position to oversee election integrity and security.”
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“Mr. Olsen was central to opening a recent F.B.I. investigation that led to the search of a Fulton County, Ga., election office in January.”
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“Mr. Olsen was a pro-Trump lawyer who in late 2020 contacted senior Justice Department officials on Mr. Trump’s behalf, pushing them to file a motion to nullify the election with the Supreme Court.”
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“Ms. Lake, who tried to reverse her defeat in the 2022 race, has served as the effective head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media.”
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“Mr. Parikh is working closely with Mr. Olsen to re-examine claims of fraud in the 2020 election, and was cited as a supposed expert in the F.B.I. affidavit supporting the search of Fulton County’s elections office.”
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“Trump issued an executive order that gave the Office of the Director of National Intelligence the ability to make determinations about foreign interference in elections.”
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“Several advisers to Mr. Trump tried to push the intelligence community to determine that foreign entities had meddled in the election, in an effort to justify a move to seize voting machines.”
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“Ms. Gabbard is helping oversee the Trump administration’s effort to investigate supposed voting irregularities in Georgia, and was present at the F.B.I. search of the Fulton County elections office.”
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“The Justice Department has the power to open investigations into allegations of fraud in elections, a move that could, if nothing else, undermine faith in the results of the upcoming midterms.”
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“Last spring, the Justice Department began seeking detailed voter roll data from states, to compile a national voting database. Under Ms. Bondi, it has sued at least 29 states and territories in an attempt to force them to turn over data.”
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“Ms. Bondi helped the Trump campaign seek to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania. She appeared at a news conference with the Trump ally Rudolph W. Giuliani, and falsely claimed that Mr. Trump had won Pennsylvania, even though not all of the ballots had been counted.”
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“Mr. Patel is overseeing a criminal investigation into alleged irregularities in the 2020 election that led to the seizure of voting records at the Fulton County election center in Georgia.”
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