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Nevilledog

(53,191 posts)
Sat Feb 11, 2023, 03:27 PM Feb 2023

Trump campaign paid researchers to prove 2020 fraud but kept findings secret

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/11/trump-campaign-report-electoral-fraud/

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Former president Trump’s 2020 campaign commissioned an outside research firm in a bid to prove electoral fraud claims but never released the findings because the firm disputed many of his theories and could not offer any proof that he was the rightful winner of the election, according to four people familiar with the matter.

The campaign paid researchers from Berkeley Research Group, the people said, to study 2020 election results in six states, looking for fraud and irregularities to highlight in public and in the courts. Among the areas examined were voter machine malfunctions, instances of dead people voting and any evidence that could help Trump show he won, the people said. None of the findings were presented to the public or in court.

About a dozen people at the firm worked on the report, including econometricians, who use statistics to model and predict outcomes, the people said. The work was carried out in the final weeks of 2020, before the Jan. 6 riot of Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol.

Trump continues to falsely assert that the 2020 election was stolen despite abundant evidence to the contrary, much of which had been provided to him or was publicly available before the Capitol assault. The Trump campaign’s commissioning of its own report to study the then-president’s fraud claims has not been previously reported.

“They looked at everything: change of addresses, illegal immigrants, ballot harvesting, people voting twice, machines being tampered with, ballots that were sent to vacant addresses that were returned and voted,” said a person familiar with the work who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private research and meetings. “Literally anything you could think of. Voter turnout anomalies, date of birth anomalies, whether dead people voted. If there was anything under the sun that could be thought of, they looked at it.”

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Trump campaign paid researchers to prove 2020 fraud but kept findings secret (Original Post) Nevilledog Feb 2023 OP
This is a big deal. Nevilledog Feb 2023 #1
+1 Baitball Blogger Feb 2023 #4
This is a great point 👇 Nevilledog Feb 2023 #5
It's going to be impossible to claim that he really believed that the election Baitball Blogger Feb 2023 #6
That group should have spoken out two years ago. Karadeniz Feb 2023 #2
No doubt there are NDAs involved. Nevilledog Feb 2023 #3
Nothing a Federal Criminal Subpoena Can't Fix Beetwasher. Feb 2023 #10
Exactly. Nevilledog Feb 2023 #11
And guess who's still waiting to be paid... nt EarthFirst Feb 2023 #7
Right? Nevilledog Feb 2023 #8
I Smell a Subpoena Coming On Beetwasher. Feb 2023 #9
I believe every word of this story except the part about Trump paying for services rendered. 11 Bravo Feb 2023 #12
Andrew Weisman-This study will be used to prove intent in TFG's criminal trial LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2023 #13
tFG verified some false pleadings after knowledge of this study LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2023 #14

Nevilledog

(53,191 posts)
5. This is a great point 👇
Sat Feb 11, 2023, 05:59 PM
Feb 2023


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12/1: trump filed suit in GA alleging voter fraud

Later in December, a research firm hired by trump to find fraud tells him & Meadows there is none.

12/30: Eastman sends an email saying trump shouldn’t sign it b/c trump knows it’s not accurate

Trump signed it anyway
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3:51 PM · Feb 11, 2023

Baitball Blogger

(47,768 posts)
6. It's going to be impossible to claim that he really believed that the election
Sat Feb 11, 2023, 06:02 PM
Feb 2023

was stolen. Game. Set. Match.

Nevilledog

(53,191 posts)
11. Exactly.
Sat Feb 11, 2023, 07:25 PM
Feb 2023

And what about the fact that he did the stop the steal rallies, the Jan 6th really AND kept fundraising while lying about it being rigged..... After he was told it wasn't stolen? That's big time fraud.

11 Bravo

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12. I believe every word of this story except the part about Trump paying for services rendered.
Sat Feb 11, 2023, 08:28 PM
Feb 2023

That simply strains credulity.

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