Trump Argued the Opposite in 2020

“In the months after the 2020 election, Donald Trump leaned on his campaign to launch ad blitzes and legal challenges to the results, insisting to his supporters that the election was ‘a long way from over.’ He even told state and federal courts he was suing in his capacity as a political candidate,” Politico reports.

“Now, in a bid to derail criminal charges, he’s saying the opposite. At least six times in the past two weeks, Trump has declared that the election was ‘long over’ by the time he began pushing state officials and then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn his defeat.”

“The contradiction could cause headaches for Trump and his current lawyers as they now press appellate courts to accept an aggressive immunity theory … It will be up to judges to determine whether Trump was in fact operating as president or candidate during that fateful stretch of 2020.”