Franklin, Andrews, Kramer & Edelstein

[scion]

Throughout the summer and early fall, amid polls forecasting a Trump loss, the president and his surrogates had ramped up their baseless claims that the election would be tainted by massive fraud. (The election proved to be “the most secure in American history,” according to US cybersecurity director Chris Krebs, whom Trump quickly fired for saying so.) By mid-­December, as Trump’s campaign was losing dozens of lawsuits alleging manipulated results in battleground states, Trump began targeting January 6, the day Congress would certify President Joe Biden’s victory. “Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election,” Trump tweeted. “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” The election was “the biggest scam in our nation’s history,” he wrote in another tweet, adding: “Never give up. See everyone in D.C. on January 6th.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/trump-stochastic-terrorism-us-capitol-mob-incitement/

The Cybersecurity 202: The Trump administration’s top election defender is calling out Republicans who support the 'big lie'
By Joseph Marks
Anchor of The Cybersecurity 202 newsletter
Today at 7:10 a.m. EDT
Chris Krebs, who led the federal government’s election security efforts during the Trump administration, yesterday lit into elected Republicans who are still contesting the former president’s defeat.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/30/cybersecurity-202-trump-administrations-top-election-defender-is-calling-out-republicans-who-support-big-lie/