And many Republican elected officials enabled Trump by repeating that lie. In doing so, they incited the rioters and insurrectionists.
Now they are calling for "unity". They are lying -- and that will be exposed by their attempts to block the Biden agenda in the days to come.
They don't want unity. They simply want to escape the responsibility for their actions. They know they are in trouble, and they're hoping calls for unity will get them out of that trouble.
But there can be no unity until they admit they were lying, and publicly recognize Joe Biden as the legally elected President of the United States.
There can be no unity with accountability!
Here os part of what former Republican (and new Democrat) Steve Schmidt has to say about those calls for unity:
The inciters of violence and the spreaders of the Big Lie are now making shallow and insincere calls for unity. They must be rejected. No accommodation can be made with these seditious extremists. There is no compromise with people who want to throw out millions of Black votes and impose a new Jim Crow.
There is no compromise with the white nationalists and supremacists. There is no compromise with the fascists and the militias. Democracy will be defended under the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution. We do not seek retribution. We demand justice and accountability under the law. This autocratic movement must be crushed. Trump is the worst president in history. He didn’t do it alone. He is surrounded by liars, thugs, seditionists, racists and opportunists. Know their names. Understand their treachery. This rancid movement that has grown around Trump's malignant personality must be eradicated as a serious threat to take political power in this country.All decent Americans who love liberty are stakeholders in that fight, and there is no fight more important than that one, because all other progress is dependent on democracy prevailing.