
The January 6th Hearings Recap Special with Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, and Nicolle Wallace (10/13/22)
The Rachel Maddow Show
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Trump's Premeditated Plan to Declare Victory on Election Day
President Trump planned as early as July that he would say he won the election even if he lost. A few days before the election, Steve Bannon spoke to a group of his associates from China and said this. The Democrats, more of our people vote early than count. There's voting to make it. And so they're going to have a natural disadvantage and Trump's going to take advantage of that. That's our strategy. He's going to declare himself a winner. So when you wake up Wednesday morning, it's going to be a firestorm. It means that everything that happened after that was premeditated that Trump said, I'm just going to declare victory"
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