If it's so easy to cheat why doesn't Trump just cheat to win?
Let's recall that
Mark Meadows, Trump's chief of staff,
Bill Stepien, his 2020 campaign manager all told him the numbers didn't add up and he lost. Meadows would go on to say Trump said that he'd be seen as a loser if he admitted he lost and he couldn't bear to accept it. Other advisors told him he wouldn't been seen as a loser, but as a President that was gracious in an election loss.
Stepien has stated that Trump wanted to declare victory before numerous states even released their results.
Jason Miller, Trump's senior aide said Rudy showed up drunk and started pressing Trump to declare victory and telling him that he was being robbed. Here is Miller
“The mayor was definitely intoxicated. Mayor Giuliani showed up and told the president to declare victory and say that we’d won outright.”
Matt Oczkowski, who was the lead election data person, was brought in, and per
Jason Miller, told Trump in pretty blunt terms that he was going to lose, that the numbers weren't there. Matt would review the numbers numerous times with Trump explaining how they didn't add up for Trump.
Richard Donoghue, who was the acting deputy attorney general, said he went case-by-case with Trump to debunk every allegation of fraud, but Trump would just move on to another one and then another one as each got knocked down.
"I told him [Trump] flat out that the information he was getting was false and not supported by the evidence," Donoghue said. "He wouldn't fight us on it, but he'd move to another allegation. He didn't want to listen to anyone that didn't tell him what he wanted to hear and that's never a good sign."
Bill Barr would go on to say that he later told Trump himself that the evidence wasn't there. He then added that Trump didn't want to talk to anyone that didn't believe he was cheated and that he had won. "He wouldn't accept anything but that he won. But that's not reality. I told him his claims were bullshit."
Eric Herschmann, one of Trump’s own attorneys, said the legal claims advanced by Trump’s Giuliani-led circle of outside legal advisers were “completely nuts.”
