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Various members of the Trump administration and other key advisors close to the former president responded differently to his refusal to accept the outcome of the 2020 election. The vast majority either amplified or failed to challenge his false claims of fraud and none pushed to hold him accountable for brazenly lying to the public about the legitimacy of the election results.
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As Trump’s director of Election Day operations in 2020, Mike Roman was deeply involved in his efforts to overturn the result, actively working to coordinate the fake electors scheme, among other strategies to help the defeated president retain his grip on power.
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Peter Navarro is an economist and professor emeritus who served in several advisory roles in the Trump administration. In 2024 he was sentenced to 4 months in prison for contempt of Congress in refusing to cooperate with the House Select Committee that investigated the attack on the Capitol.
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Reince Priebus served as chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) from 2011–17 and also briefly served as Trump’s White House chief of staff from Jan. 20–July 31, 2017. Previously he chaired the Wisconsin Republican Party and practiced law in Wisconsin.
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Project 2025 is a set of far-right policies developed by the Heritage Foundation, with input from hundreds of former Trump administration officials who continue to deny the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election. It provides a detailed blueprint to allow the next Trump administration to hit the ground running in 2025 and overhaul the federal government within its first 180 days in power.
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Dan Scavino has worked for Trump since he was hand-picked to be his caddy at the age of 16. As a member of the administration, he served as deputy chief of staff for communications from 2019–21 and as deputy chief for social media from 2017–21.
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About Stephen Miller, who worked as a congressional staffer for several years before being recruited by Steve Bannon for the 2016 Trump campaign, is among the most extreme of the extremists to serve as a senior policy advisor to the former president. With strong backing from white supremacists and nationalists, he was the driving force … Read more
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Virginia (Ginni) Thomas is a conservative lobbyist and activist who has been married to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas since 1987. Numerous conflict of interest charges have arisen as a result of their long crusade together fighting for “a more conservative America.”
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About War Room (sometimes referred to as Bannon’s War Room) is the podcast former Trump campaign and administration advisor Steve Bannon has been hosting since 2019. The podcast—which he prefers to think of as a TV show since it includes a lot of visuals—is recorded six days a week from the basement of a Washington, … Read more
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Leading up to the insurrection, the “war room” at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. was the so-called command center for members of Trump’s inner circle who were among the biggest provocateurs of the stolen election narrative.