He was told by members of his team that he trusted that there was some fraudulent ballots I bet. And there WERE some fraudulent happenings, just not enough proof. Every election has fraud. EVERY election. It usually only comes out after the fact when people can't or won't do anything about it because by then it's too much effort and someone is already sworn into office. There are even judges that agree that there were "irregularities" that happened in the 2020 election.
All that is true. What made this "special" were the efforts of the winning campaign and its supporters in Congress and the Media to inhibit any inquiry, audits, or even the mention of any apparent fraud.
Had the people who insisted, over and over again, that there was "no" fraud, period, allowed any serious investigation of the many credible instances of fraud, we all would have learned whether what happened was out of the ordinary or not and whether the votes that shouldn't have been counted would have altered the outcome.
So, by preventing that,
they are the ones
--not the Trump supporters
--who are responsible for a huge segment of the population being left to believe or suspect that fraud changed the outcome.
The Trump supporters would, in the main, have accepted the vote totals if a serious inquiry into the disputed procedures and ballots had been undertaken and their candidate was shown to have lost, even accounting for some number of invalid ballots.
While the defenders of the winning candidate began to say that the fraudulent votes (admitting that there indeed were some of them after all) were not enough to change the outcome, the fact is that it would only be necessary for the final tallies in about four states where the totals were very close to be changed for this to have swung the election the other way. The votes, valid or invalid, that were cast in dozens of other states wouldn't even have needed to be verified for the results in that critical handful of states to have changed the result.