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Inside Trump’s Effort to ‘Take Over’ the Midterm Election

  • Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica--Ms. Magazine
  • published date: 2026-04-13 19:35:59 UTC

In the final weeks of the 2020 election, as Donald Trump’s false claims of fraud intensified, a small group of federal officials found themselves in a windowless room at the Justice Department confronting a question that could test the limits of American demo…

President Donald Trump and then-Attorney General William Barr in the Cabinet Room on Sept. 23, 2020. (Mandel Ngan / AFP via Getty Images) Originally published by ProPublica. In mid-December 2020, f… [+32365 chars]