A research firm investigated Donald Trump’s claim that the presidential election was rigged, but its findings were suppressed because it found nothing to support the claim, The Washington Post reported, citing four sources familiar with the matter.
The Berkeley Research Group, which was hired by the former president’s 2020 campaign, assembled a team of about 1,000 people across six states, according to the Post.
The team reportedly briefed Trump, former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others on a conference call held in the final days of 2020 — before Trump held a rally urging supporters to march on the Capitol ahead of the January 6, 2021 uprising. controversy.
But researchers have seen “everything,” one source told the Post.
“Literally anything you can think of. Voter anomalies, birthdate anomalies, whether the dead vote. If there’s anything under the sun they can think of, they’re looking at it,” the source said.
On Saturday morning, Trump claimed that the 2020 presidential election was “hijacked” or “stolen” from him, fueling various conspiracy theories about voting machines and election workers.
He has made these claims even though dozens of lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign or its allies were dismissed for lack of evidence in the weeks after President Joe Biden’s victory.
Trump continued to make statements during the House select committee’s months-long investigation, which revealed that people close to Trump repeatedly tried to tell him there was no evidence of fraud.
And apparently, he made them despite knowing that a team of professional investigators paid to try and find evidence of fraud came up empty-handed.
The Post’s source added: “As with general elections, there are bound to be mistakes, omissions and irregularities.” But the man insisted that he was not enough to disrupt the election.
“It’s not close enough to what we want to prove,” the source said, “and it really goes both ways.”
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