*What does "impromptu interventions" mean?
Are "interventions" different from "meetings"?

*What does "without diminishing his electoral win" mean?

In the final days before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, members of his inner circle pleaded with him to acknowledge publicly what U.S. intelligence agencies had already concluded — that Russia's interference in the 2016 election was real.

Holding impromptu interventions in Trump's 26th-floor corner office at Trump Tower, advisers — including Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and designated chief of staff, Reince Priebus — prodded the president-elect to accept the findings that the nation's spy chiefs had personally presented to him on Jan. 6.

They sought to convince Trump that he could affirm the validity of the intelligence without diminishing his electoral win, according to three officials involved in the sessions. More important, they said that doing so was the only way to put the matter behind him politically and free him to pursue his goal of closer ties with Russian President Vladi¬mir Putin.

"This was part of the normalization process," one participant said. "There was a big effort to get him to be a standard president."

Question

*What does "impromptu interventions" mean?
Are "interventions" different from "meetings"?

*What does "without diminishing his electoral win" mean?


In the final days before Donald Trump was sworn in as president, members of his inner circle pleaded with him to acknowledge publicly what U.S. intelligence agencies had already concluded — that Russia's interference in the 2016 election was real.

Holding impromptu interventions in Trump's 26th-floor corner office at Trump Tower, advisers — including Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and designated chief of staff, Reince Priebus — prodded the president-elect to accept the findings that the nation's spy chiefs had personally presented to him on Jan. 6.

They sought to convince Trump that he could affirm the validity of the intelligence without diminishing his electoral win, according to three officials involved in the sessions. More important, they said that doing so was the only way to put the matter behind him politically and free him to pursue his goal of closer ties with Russian President Vladi¬mir Putin.

"This was part of the normalization process," one participant said. "There was a big effort to get him to be a standard president."

jimpjorps · Accepted Answer

impromptu = unplanned, informal
intervention = a meeting whose goal is to get someone to stop doing something harmful or bad

They were trying to convince him to accept what the intelligence agencies said, because they thought it was harmful for Trump to reject it.

diminish = to make something look worse by comparison

They wanted to convince him that the intelligence agencies were right, and that it wouldn't make his election win look worse.

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