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Giuliani’s grand plan was to just say Trump won, state after state, based on nothing. [Bill] Stepien, [Jason] Miller and [Mark] Meadows thought his argument was both incoherent and irresponsible.
— An excerpt from the book I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year (affiliate link), published earlier this week in the Washington Post, reportedly recounting what occurred at the White House on election night 2020 among the members of the Trump campaign. Rudy Giuliani, former personal attorney to then-president Donald Trump, wanted to urge Trump to declare a win, “based on nothing.” Those present allegedly “thought Giuliani may have been drinking too much.”
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