Trump was largely checked out anyway, as were many of the aides who might have counseled him to give up on the election. Jared and Ivanka had decided not only to move to Florida but to explicitly step aside from the fight in the time that remained to them in Washington. Once they saw that the president was empowering Rudy Giuliani, the man they believed had gotten Trump impeached with his out-of-bounds adventurism, they surrendered the field. They had no appetite for waging what would probably be a losing battle to persuade a president who did not want to be persuaded on the folly of his
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