You interpret incorrectly. You should have just taken it at face value as plain English.
Yes. He did try to overthrow the election. Easy to understand recounts on close vote, but most weren't even close. The conspiracy crap was disproven. Even his own unscrupulous lawyers would not even make the claim in courts in front of judges (only outside the courts for trumpist consumption). After loosing consistently in the courts, he tried to get states to overrule the elector slate they had already verified. He tried to get them to change the vote totals, in one case asking that he only needed 10,000 votes. He attacked anybody that would not change their state's votes, even republicans. He tried to strong-arm his own Vice President to take unconstitutional action with powers the VP never had. He got people riled up at a fake "stop the steal" rally, marched them on The Capital, where they attacked both houses of congress while in session to finalize receiving the votes of the states. When it turned violent and destructive outside and inside the capital, he refused requests to call off the siege until maximum damage had been done, and it was certain they would fail to stop the election from being finalized. That meet all the criteria of trying to overthrow the vote. I would not vote to give him a second chance to be more successful at taking away our right to free and fair elections, where the votes counted, as opposed to being changed at levels above the polls by political cronies content to overthrow the will of the voting population.
