A research firm investigated Donald Trump’s claim that the presidential election was rigged, but the results were suppressed because they found nothing to support his claims, the Washington Post reported, citing four sources familiar with the matter.
Berkeley Research Group, hired by the former president’s 2020 campaign, has assembled a team of about a dozen people to investigate alleged voter fraud and irregularities in six states, according to the Post.
The team briefed Trump, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others in a conference call in the final days of 2020, before Trump held a rally urging supporters to march on the Capitol ahead of the riot from January 6, 2021. became controversial.
But the researchers looked at “everything,” a source told the Post.
“Literally anything you can think of. Anomalies in voting participation, anomalies in the date of birth, if deceased persons voted. If there was anything under the sun they could think of, they looked at it,” the source said.
As early as Saturday morning, Trump claimed that the 2020 presidential election was “rigged” or “stolen” from him, promoting various conspiracy theories about voting machines and polls.
He made the claims even as dozens of lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign or its allies were dismissed for lack of evidence in the weeks following President Joe Biden’s victory.
Trump continued to make his claims during Monday’s House Select Committee investigation, which revealed that people close to Trump repeatedly tried to tell him there was no evidence of fraud.
And apparently he did, even though he knew a team of professional detectives he paid to try to find evidence of fraud came up empty-handed.
The Post’s source added: “Like any election, there are always errors, omissions and irregularities.” But the person stressed that they were not enough to sway the election.
“It wasn’t very close to what they wanted to prove,” the source said, “and it actually went both ways.”
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