Photos capture election-night tension at White House as Trump family, aides watch lead fade away
A series of photos taken on election night 2020 inside the Trump White House captures the tension as Trump's family and his top aides track election returns and see Trump's early lead fade away.
2022-06-14 19:57:51 - VI News Staff
The photos, taken by a White House photographer and published exclusively in the book, "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show," are a visual representation of the testimony of senior Trump advisers who told the House Jan. 6 committee that they did not believe Donald Trump should declare victory on election night.
The room, located in the basement of the White House residence, is where President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tracked the movement of Allied Forces during World War II.
It's called the Map Room because some of the maps used by FDR are framed and on the walls.
For election night, however, Trump's political team transformed the room in to a campaign war room, installing large-screen televisions and placing them over FDR's maps.
The photos capture the apparently pained expressions on the faces of Trump's inner circle.
According to a source who is shown in at least one of the photos, they were taken as the campaign's analysts, who had been more confident early in the evening, became concerned Trump could lose.