I've had this same thought.
The four year gap just allowed a lot of malicious planning to occur. Especially the Project 2025 whitepaper.
And on the subject of election fraud: I think sending a ramble horde to kick in the doors of the capitol building, _while_ the election results were being tallied, and calling the vice-president to order an alternate set of "electors", and calling on the state of Georgia to "find" additional votes, is clearly election fraud.
Because of all this, when the current administration claims there is election fraud in the US, he knows this to be true, because he committed it...