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After Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, then-incumbent Donald Trump pursued an aggressive and unprecedented effort to overturn the election, with support and assistance from his campaign, his proxies, his political allies, and many of his supporters. These efforts culminated in the 2021 United States Capitol attack, which was widely described as an attempted coup d'état.Trump and his allies promoted a "big lie" of numerous false claims and conspiracy theories claiming that the election was stolen by means of rigged voting machines, electoral fraud and an international communist conspiracy. These allegations were dismissed as baseless by numerous state and federal judges, election officials, governors, and government agencies. On December 1, 2020, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said U.S. attorneys and FBI agents had investigated complaints and allegations of fraud, but found none of significance. Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said no evidence had been found of foreign interference. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs called the election "the most secure in American history", leading Trump to fire him and Trump attorney Joseph diGenova to call for his execution.Hundreds of elected Republicans, including members of Congress and governors, refused to acknowledge Biden's victory, though some did so after the certification of the Electoral College vote. Emily Murphy, the administrator of the General Services Administration, delayed the start of the presidential transition until sixteen days after most media outlets had projected Biden to be the winner.Trump and his allies encouraged federal and state officials, particularly in states that Biden won, to throw out legally-cast ballots, challenge vote-certification processes, and overturn certified election results. Trump pressed Justice Department leaders to challenge the election results and publicly state the election was corrupt. In an early January 2021 phone call, he pressed the Georgia secretary of state to "find" the 11,780 votes needed to secure his victory in the state. Trump repeatedly urged Georgia Governor Brian Kemp to convene a special session of the legislature to overturn Biden's certified victory in the state, and made a similar plea to the Pennsylvania Speaker of the House. On a conference call, he asked 300 Republican state legislators to seek ways to reverse certified election results in their states. Under the direction of Trump's personal attorney, Republican officials in seven states created fraudulent electoral certificates of ascertainment to falsely assert Trump had been reelected.Before and after the election, Trump said he expected the outcome would be decided by the Supreme Court, where conservative justices held a 6–3 majority, with three of the justices having been appointed by Trump. After the election, his legal team sought a path to bring a case before the Court. The Trump campaign and its allies filed at least 63 lawsuits on and after Election Day, none of which were successful. On December 11, 2020, the Supreme Court declined to hear Texas v. Pennsylvania, a case hailed by Trump as "the big one" and supported by numerous Republicans, which sought to overturn the results in four swing states won by Biden. Five lawyers who represented Trump resigned in January 2021 after claiming he coerced them to repeat false claims of voter fraud.After the failure of Texas, Trump reportedly considered additional options, including military intervention, seizing voting machines and another appeal to the Supreme Court, as well as challenging the congressional counting of the electoral votes on January 6, 2021. Former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, who received a presidential pardon shortly after the election, had called on the president to suspend the Constitution, silence the press, and hold a new election under military supervision.By December 30, multiple Republican members of the House and Senate indicated their intent to object to the congressional certification of Electoral College results in order to force both chambers to debate and vote on whether to accept the results. Mike Pence, who as vice president would preside over the proceedings, signaled his endorsement of the effort, stating on January 4, "I promise you, come this Wednesday, we will have our day in Congress." Trump and some supporters promoted a false "Pence card" theory that the vice president has the authority to reject certified results.As Congress convened to certify the results, Trump held a rally on the Ellipse. He then encouraged his supporters to march to the Capitol building, which they attacked. One week later, Trump was impeached a second time for incitement of insurrection but was acquitted by the Senate. In July 2021, the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack was formed. In December 2021, The Washington Post reported that the select committee was considering a recommendation to the U.S. Department of Justice of opening a possible criminal investigation into Donald Trump's activities on January 6.As of January 2022, Trump continues to insist that the election was stolen; as of November 2021, many Republicans continue to support his claims. In December 2021, the The New York Times reported that Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and a small group of Trump loyalists, including Republican lawmakers, attempted to keep Trump in power by overturning the 2020 election.