To some of his advisers, it seemed that Trump wavered in those first few days after his loss. There was a brief window when they thought that Trump understood he had genuinely fallen short. Sitting in his dining room at one point, he saw Biden on the television screen. “Can you believe I lost to this fucking guy?” he groused. When someone raised an issue during a national security meeting, Trump replied with something to the effect of, “We’re going to leave it to the next guy.” But the kind of advisers who might have steered him toward acceptance were no longer around the brooding president,
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