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RussBLib

(9,036 posts)
Thu Jul 14, 2022, 06:21 PM Jul 2022

LOST, NOT STOLEN report out from conservatives

Some of the last reasonable Republicans?

from CNN

A group of conservatives, including prominent lawyers and retired federal judges, issued a 72-page report on Thursday categorically rebutting each of the claims made in court by former President Donald Trump and his supporters over the 2020 election results.

The report, "LOST, NOT STOLEN: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election," looked at more than 60 court cases Trump and his supporters filed and lost in six key battleground states. It reached the "unequivocal" conclusion that the former Republican president's claims were unsupportable -- which Trump's own Department of Homeland Security as well as election officials nationwide debunked days after the 2020 election.

"There is absolutely no evidence of fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election on the magnitude necessary to shift the result in any state, let alone the nation as a whole. In fact, there was no fraud that changed the outcome in even a single precinct," the report says.

The report is signed by retired federal appeals court judges Thomas B. Griffith, J. Michael Luttig and Michael W. McConnell, former Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson, former US Sens. John Danforth and Gordon H. Smith, longtime Republican election lawyer Benjamin L. Ginsberg and veteran Republican congressional chief of staff David Hoppe. Several of them are longtime Trump critics.

CNN: Prominent conservatives issue report rebutting Trump election claims.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/14/politics/conservatives-report-trump-2020-election-claims/index.html

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LOST, NOT STOLEN report out from conservatives (Original Post) RussBLib Jul 2022 OP
But MAGAs don't listen to SANE conservatives. Did Ginni sign it? Or the Pillow Guy? 70sEraVet Jul 2022 #1
I agree RussBLib Jul 2022 #2
Unsupportable? Since when? czarjak Jul 2022 #3

70sEraVet

(3,512 posts)
1. But MAGAs don't listen to SANE conservatives. Did Ginni sign it? Or the Pillow Guy?
Fri Jul 15, 2022, 09:12 AM
Jul 2022

Thanks for the post, though, RussBLib. It is a bit reassuring to know that there ARE sane conservatives.

RussBLib

(9,036 posts)
2. I agree
Fri Jul 15, 2022, 09:45 AM
Jul 2022

MAGAts are a lost cause, but this report will likely reel a few more Republicans back from the brink to see reality in a clearer light.

A few hundred here, a couple thousand here. It's progress.

Take the win where you can.

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