Plot to Overturn the Election

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🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In a new investigative collaboration, FRONTLINE and ProPublica trace the hidden sources of misinformation about the 2020 election, demonstrating how a handful of people have had an outsized impact on the current U.S. crisis of democratic legitimacy.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to the Frontline Audio Cast, the enhanced audio version of our documentaries.
0:06.0	We also produce a podcast, the Frontline Dispatch, available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:12.0	Right now, here is the audio cast of Plot to overturn the election. The correspondent and narrator is AC Thompson.
0:43.0	Frontline and ProPublica investigate how lies meet their way to the center of American politics.
0:49.0	Misinformation of this group would create, would find it's way to Trump and kept playing a role in the White House's attempts to overturn the election.
0:57.0	And our growing political movement.
0:59.0	They feel like it's what they need to do to politically survive, but they are eating at the foundations of our democracy when they do that.
1:08.0	Now, Plot to overturn the election.
1:16.0	Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station from viewers like you.
1:21.0	Thank you. And by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1:25.0	Additional support is provided by the Abrams Foundation, committed to excellence in journalism.
1:31.0	The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world, more at Macfound.org.
1:39.0	Park Foundation dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues and by the Frontline Journalism Fund, with major support from John and Joanne Hagueller,
1:49.0	and additional support from Koo and Patricia U.N. committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities.
1:55.0	Additional support for Plot to overturn the election was provided by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, empowering world's changing world.
2:15.0	An election permeated with fraud. Is that an election?
2:19.0	We all know that Biden didn't get 80 million votes. Give me a break.
2:23.0	I've come to Phoenix, Arizona.
2:27.0	We already have a president, and his name is Donald Trump.
2:32.0	It's been more than a year since Donald Trump was defeated.
2:36.0	We will, if I have anything to say about it, de-certify the November 2020 presidential election.
2:46.0	If you don't think that fraud exists in the election, and you don't think the election was stolen, you're either stupid,
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