winning. >> despite all that, he continued to purposely and maliciously make false claims, sometimes within a day of being told that a particular claim was false and unsupported by the evidence. by the time the electoral college met to cast votes on december 14, 2020, a member of president trump's senior staff, cabinet officials and members of his family were urging him to facilitate a peaceful transition to the incoming administration. he disregarded their advice and continued to claim publicly the election had been stolen from him. numerous state and federal courts evaluated and rejected the trump campaign's claims of voter fraud, including 11 judges appointed by ex-president trump himself. many of these courts issued scathing opinions, criticizing the lack of evidence that ex-president trump and his