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...Trump's own campaign advisers had told him not long after the election that he had likely lost, and then they confirmed that he had indeed lost in the week or so that followed. Efforts to find fraud, overseen by lawyers for the Trump campaign, had uncovered no fraud sufficient to overturn the election in any state.
Men and women who had loyally served President Trump knew it was over. And later, even as I was writing this book, yet more details emerged: Two expert analyses, both apparently commissioned by the Trump campaign, reportedly reached the same conclusion. In the nearly three years since January 6, 2021, no genuine evidence has come out that could substantiate Trump's stolen-election claims. It was all a lie.
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