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The president-elect spent the weekend at his golf club and estate, continuing to push the debunked idea that his loss in the 2020 election could have been legally overturned.
Maggie Haberman
Reporting from West Palm Beach, Fla.
President-elect Donald J. Trump was at Mar-a-Lago, his members-only club and home in Florida, nearly 1,000 miles away from the Capitol as a joint session of Congress certified his Electoral College victory on Monday.
“CONGRESS CERTIFIES OUR GREAT ELECTION VICTORY TODAY — A BIG MOMENT IN HISTORY. MAGA!” Mr. Trump wrote on his website, Truth Social.
Jan. 6 unfolded much differently than it did four years ago, when a pro-Trump mob left a speech that he was giving near the White House and marched to the Capitol. Many clashed with law enforcement officers, forcefully entered the building and disrupted the proceedings.
The violence was the culmination of Mr. Trump’s weeks of lies about widespread fraud affecting the election and his refusal to acknowledge Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the victor. Some in the crowd that day hunted for Speaker Nancy Pelosi while others threatened the sitting vice president, chanting, “Hang Mike Pence.”
Mr. Trump has spent the past four years trying to rewrite the events of Jan. 6, 2021, calling it a day of “love.”
On Saturday night at Mar-a-Lago, he sat in for a screening of a movie called “The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice.” It is unclear who produced the movie, but it focuses on the conservative lawyer John Eastman, who pushed a legal theory that Mr. Pence could have summarily stopped the certification of Mr. Biden’s Electoral College win during the Jan. 6 session. White House lawyers and other Trump advisers disagreed, but Mr. Trump became captivated by it.
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