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While this all unfolded, Trump maintained publicly that he was doing nothing wrong. He insisted he was defending the integrity of the election, not attacking it; that he was standing up for voters, not undermining them. He framed the investigations and lawsuits as political persecution, a coordinated attempt to silence both him and the movement behind him.
His critics, on the other hand, argued the opposite: that no president — past or present — should be immune from accountability. They claimed the charges weren’t about politics, but about preserving the basic rules that keep elections functioning in the first place.