“The day after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, then-President Trump released a video finally, reluctantly agreeing to a transfer of power to the ‘new’ Biden administration. As soon as two days after the release of the White House video, however, Donald Trump wanted a mulligan,” Rolling Stone reports.
“A person with direct knowledge of the matter tells Rolling Stone that Trump told aides who were sticking by him that he wanted to deliver another speech to the nation, one in which he would double-down on the lie that the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen’ via ‘fraud.'”
She did not respond to a request for comment.