I think that the American people should take heart in the fact that despite the fact that if this document did exist, that you know, our institutions worked as they should have, and despite the fact that there might have been violence and an effort to overturn the outcome of an election, we returned that evening on January 6th and certified the election as the voters intended us to do so.
Murphy discusses the importance of institutional integrity in the face of attempts to overturn the election results.
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I think this is one of many conspiracy theories that the President continued to press despite the fact that his White House Counsel, as well as the Department of Justice and the state, election officials had debunked.
The President's own documents suggest that the President had decided to call on his supporters to go to the Capitol on January 6th, but that he chose not to widely announce it until his speech on Ellipse that morning.
Ultimately, President Trump did not succeed in bending State and Federal officials to his will.
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