Six days after the major news networks called the 2020 race for Joe Biden.

The former mayor of New York City stood before reporters as hair dye streamed down his face

and declared the election was stolen.

He said he would prove it in court, but he never produced any of that proof.

Not in Wisconsin, not in Arizona, not in Michigan,

not in Pennsylvania. Of the more than 60 lawsuits challenging the 2020 results, Trump got a favorable

ruling in just one case. And it was only procedural, and it only affected a few hundred ballots, not enough to sway any results.

The other cases were either dismissed, settled, or voluntarily withdrawn.

But the myth of the fraud that dead people voted, machines were hacked, a foreign government interfered, and votes were flipped,

well, that myth lived on, promoted ad nauseum on conservative media.

But the myth even lost there, and it was costly. After trashing Dominion voting machines,

Fox News was forced to pay one of the largest defamation settlements in U.S. history, $787 million to keep that case from

going to trial. And yet, the myth of a stolen election still lives because the president of the

United States, despite being back in the Oval Office, can't let

2020 go. He refuses to accept he lost. And not accepting it has become a litmus test for anyone

in the Republican Party, be they a lawmaker or a member of President Trump's second administration.

It's not just refusing to accept the loss.

It's investigating those who publicly stated the truth about the election like Chris Krebs.

And now it's also potentially continuing investigation into the loss itself and maybe even using the delusion to gain more power over the next elections.

President Trump's new election integrity team at the Department of Homeland Security includes Heather Honey and Marcy McCarthy, McCarthy,

two election deniers who worked to overturn the results in Georgia and Pennsylvania.

Honey is now Deputy Assistant Secretary for Election Integrity at the Department of Homeland Security,

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