If the nefarious thing wasn't part of the counting of the ballots, then the counting of the ballots was fair.

Everybody believes that something is illegitimate. You're harping on the election integrity thing, and that's fine.

It's not a trap, though. It disproves your point.

This oughta be good.

If what you're complaining about makes the election invalid...then what? It's already happened. If impropriety before the election makes the election "rigged," then there can't be a fair election. So what - Trump has to win, no matter who the voters actually vote for? We cancel the election?

Ask the democrats, who did everything in their power to effectively cancel the 2016 election and distract the sitting President such that the people who really run the government - non-Senate appointed department chairs and mid-level career bureaucrats - could keep on keeping on absent the directives of a President they personally loathed and weren't about to take orders from.

If the right wing is going to claim that the a Trump loss doesn't count because of the FISA/foreign agents/campaign funds things that happened years earlier,

Yeah nobody's claiming that.
In this thread you folks are trying to create a scenario where only Trump supporters are guilty of Election Interference and Denialism and tie it back to "misinformation" or some such. What you're ignoring are the years 2017-2020, where we saw what a real attempt to overthrow a government looked like.

Not some riot, not some protest gone bad. This was an active conspiracy theory on the part of a failed Presidential Candidate, Congressional democrats and Deep State holdovers upset at the changing of the guard. Every one of these people violated their oaths of office and took the country down a dark path fueled by lies and misinformation. Kind of ironic that democrats today are accusing Republicans of only consuming...misinformation.

I'll also note that you're taking my theoretical scenarios and extrapolating those into what the right wing thinks writ large. That won't fly either.

And I'll still note that no one's contesting the fact that a Trump win == left wing riots.