THE LIST OF VERIFIERS

The following are just a small fraction of the institutions, media outlets, journalists, Republican officials, and Trump's own staff who have gone on the record to declare that the 2020 Presidential was not stolen.

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Note: selected names are emphasized with asterisks to call the attention of conservative readers who may find these particular testimonials especially persuasive.

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***** Gary Abernathy. Conservative columnist for the Washington Post. Frequent contributor to the PBS News Hour, c. 20 Sept., 21, said the big lie “disqualified him from the presidency”. Import full verbatim quote.

***** Tim Alberta. The Atlantic. Formerly at National Review and also at Politico. Frontline, “Lies, Politics and Democracy”, Season 40, Episode 17, 7 Sept., 22. “And you might ask yourself: ‘Do they really believe this?’ And the answer, in almost every single case, is ‘No’. They don’t believe it.” Also, interviewing Kelly Anne Conway, Sept. 2024 at the Atlantic Festival; “asking Vice President Pence to violate his oath to the Constitution on January 6th….”

Yamiche Alcindor, Washington Week, 1 Oct., 21. “Former President Trump and his R. allies also continue to lie about the 2020 election…”

Yamiche Alcindor, Washington Week host; “at the center? Former President Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was rigged. ... wrongly claimed that the election was stolen. 7 May, 21. ” also, Dan Balz, same show.

Jacqueline Alemany. Jackie Alemany. WASHINGTON POST Congressional Investigations reporter on Trump issues. Morning Joe, 13.10.22. “tried to defraud the American people by continuing to fundraise off of these false claims of election fraud.”

Christiane Amanpour. “after falsely crying election fraud for months…” 11 Jan., 21.

Anne Applebaum. Writer for The Atlantic. Formerly at The Spectator and The Economist and The Washington Post; Pulitzer Prize winner. “accepting a conspiracy theory, in this case that the 2020 election was stolen…” MORNING JOE, MSNBC 6 May, 24.

***** Arizona. Results were “certified by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General…” Washington Journal, 24.9.21.

Arizona. CNN Special Report, “Stop the vote: The big lie’s assault on Democracy”, 27.10.21. attorney representing AZ R. party told Supreme Court … Justice Barret: “What’s the interest of the AZ RNC here in keeping ...out-of-precinct voter ballot disqualification rules on the books?” response: “B/c it puts us at a competitive disadvantage relative to D.s. Politics is a zero-sum game.”

***** The Associated Press. From Washington Journal, C-SPAN, 7 June, 22. conservative candidate “repeated Trump’s lies that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election ….”

***** TheAssociated Press. BBCWNA 1 July, 24. “minimal potential voter fraud in 2020.” Only fewer than 475 (in swing states?).

***** The Atlantic. “The Election Denier Who Could Run Michigan’s Elections.” Caramo “said that Trump, not Biden, is the real winner of Michigan and the election.”

***** The Atlantic Council, Jared Holt, C-SPAN, 6 April, 21; “falsehoods about the election spread at some points by then president Donald Trump…” Digital Forensic Lab Resident fellow.

***** Whit Ayres. Republican pollster. At AEI. C-SPAN. 10 Nov., 22. flawed Republican candidates for Congress “whine about elections that they haven’t won.”

John Avalon. From Media Buzz, 13.2.22. the R. party is “committed to defending a lie.” Video. Also, ”the Big Lie”, Amanpour, 4 May, 22. “We can’t emphasize enough what a departure it is from basic, basic American values, let alone our best traditions.”

***** Rep. Don Bacon. Republican. BBC News America. ? 25.10.23. import video.

***** Bret Baier. Fox News Network. Interview with Trump where Trump said he won the election by a lot. Repeatedly contradicted Trump: “you lost the 2020 election.” From Morning Joe, MSNBC, 20.6.23.

***** Bret Baier. Immediately following Jan 6 committee hearing on Trump pressure on state legislatures to reject electors and create an entirely different slate of electors 21.6.22. on Fox News Channel. CHIEF of the AZ state house of delegates. Speaker of the House.

***** Bret Baier. conversation with Giuliani, “Giuliani said there were thousands of dead people who voted in AZ. Rusty Bowers wanted names. He said there were hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants in AZ who voted in AZ. He said he wanted evidence and waited for that evidence AND DID NOT GET IT. Ever get it. …But the evidence never materialized. ” Bowers has been member of the House since the early nineties, 30y! voted for Trump, campaigned with Trump in 2020. Speaker since 2019. No doubt in his mind Biden won the popular vote in AZ. Video. Directly called Trump’s statement of their phone call false; Trump said publicly that Bowers told him the AZ election was “rigged” and that he won AZ. Trump called him personally. “on multiple occasions” he asked for specific proof. Trump said “we hv 200,000 illegal immigrants, some large number; we hv 5 or 6,000 dead ppl, etc. I said do you have their names?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Will you give them to me?’ ‘yes.’ ...on at least two occasions during that conversation.’ He “never” received any evidence at any time. He said that there had already been a ‘circus’ in AZ. Didn’t merit a hearing and “didn’t want to be used as a pawn”. was asked to hold an official hearing.

***** Bret Baier. Washington Post “’There is NO evidence of fraud,’ Anchor Bret Baier wrote to one of his bosses.” Washington Post 18.2.23. his emphasis.

***** Bret Baier, Media Buzz, 19.12.21. asked by Howie Kurtz about the ‘unsubstantiated’ claims by Trump, and the statements by the news side of Fox News Network: “and we’ve been clear. There’s not been any doubt.” Also, 24.3.22 “unfounded election fraud claims by former president Donald Trump”; Fox.

***** Bret Baier. Mediaite, 11.1.21. “a number of Fox News anchors have debunked claims of a stolen election, namely Bret Baier and Chris Wallace. ******** Chris Wallace.

***** Bret Baier. Fox News, 28.6.22. on Cassidy Hutchinson testimony. “she quotes Mark Meadows saying [to Pat Cipollone]: ‘Pat, you heard the president. He doesn’t care. He thinks Mike deserves it.” ...as far as their literally calling for the Vice President to be hung. … She obviously had access to all of the players.” Trump said repeatedly that she was lying, but she was under oath.

Peter Baker. Washington Bureau Chief for The New York Times. “Washington Week”, PBS. 10.12.21. “Actually, the truth is it WAS a free and fair election…”

Peter Baker. New York Times. “refusing to accept the results of the democratic election, which he lost.” News Hour, 22.9.22.

Peter Baker. NEW YORK TIMES. Definitive statement about Trump’s career. Morning Joe, MSNBC 11.4.24. “When Trump talks about election integrity, what he means is: “I win and you lose.”’ It’s nothing about counting the votes.” Import full quote. “It doesn’t matter that there are facts to the contrary. ….”

***** Dan Balz, political correspondent for Washington Post. Washington Week, PBS, 28.4.23. “and the election denialism that the President has CONTINUED to talk about…” also Washington Week, pbs, “lying about what happened in 2020…” 21.7.23.

***** Steve Bannon. Mother Jones “Leaked Audio: Before Election Day, Bannon said Trump Planned to Falsely Claim Victory”, from Washington Journal, 13.7.22. Verbatim audio: “That’s our strategy. He’s gonna declare himself a winner.” Also, “[o]n the evening of Oct 31, 2020, Steve Bannon told a group of associates that President Donald J. Trump had a plan to declare victory on election night –even if he was LOSING. Trump knew that the slow counting of D. leaning mail-in ballots meant the returns wd show early leads for him in key states. His ‘strategy’ was to use this fact to assert that he had won, while claiming that the inevitable shifts in vote totals toward JB must be the result of fraud, Bannon explained.” Verbatim audio: “What Trump’s gonna do, is just declare victory. Right? He’s gonna declare victory. But that doesn’t mean he’s a winner,’ Bannon, laughing, told the group, according to audio of the meeting obtained by Mother Jones. ‘He’s just gonna say he’s a winner.’

***** Steve Bannon. He admits the Trumpism strategy is “flood the zone with shit.”

Bart Barber. President of the conservative Southern Baptist Conventio, the largest evangelical group in the country. 60 Minutes, 9.10.22. “Do you believe that the 2020 election was stolen?” “No.” “You believe that Joe Biden is the legitimate president of the United States.” “I do. Absolutely.”

Laura Barron-Lopez. From PBS Newshour, on Washington Week, 21.7.23. “about efforts to steal the 2020 election…”

***** William Barr. Trump’s Attorney General. Called it “bullshit”. Import the good extended quote from Jonathan Karl, Media Buzz, 28.11.21. “He went through in detail to explain why. He investigated these claims.”

The Washington Times. It writes: “was not rigged …cd hv won re-election if he had ‘just exercised a modicum of self-restraint, moderating even a little of his pettiness. The election was not ‘stolen’. Trump lost it.’” From Washington Times, 7.3.22. also, Media Buzz, 21.3.22. “Fraud played no role”; also, Trump surrounded himself with “sycophants and whack jobs”. Even Barr said Trump tried to politicize the DOJ. After the election, Trump behavior “went off the rails.”

Bill Barr. Testimony to the January 6 commission: “I repeatedly told the president in no uncertain terms that I did not see evidence of fraud that wd hv affected the outcome of the election. And, frankly, a year and a half later, I haven’t seen anything to change my mind on that. …I saw absolutely zero evidence for the allegations. But they were made in such a sensational way that they were obviously influencing a lot of people, members of the public that there was systemic corruption in the system and that their votes didn’t count and that these machines controlled by somebody else were actually determining it, which was complete nonsense …and I told them that it was crazy stuff…., and it was doing a grave, grave disservice to the country.” C-span 9.6.22. Yet Trump repeated the Dominion lies at least a dozen more times after those meetings. Dominion. ******** Jeff Rosen. ******** Richard Donoghue. Acting Deputy Attorney General. (after Barr had quit). Cheney, c-span 9.6.22; they told Trump “over and over again that the evidence did not support what he was saying in public.

Bill Barr. Video. C-span 9.6.22. “I made it clear I did not agree with the idea that the election was stolen and putting out this stuff which I told the president was bullshit. And I didn’t want to be a part of it. And that was one of the reasons why I decided to leave when I did. …you can’ live in a world where the incumbent administration stays in power based on its view – unsupported by specific evidence –that there was fraud in the election.” January 6 first broadcast hear4ing.

Bill Barr. “Everyone knew that Democrat vote totals would surge as all of the mail-in votes were finally counted.” Also, Trump made fraud claims before any ‘evidence’ was available. 13.6.22, Congressional Hearing.

***** Bill Barr. Conference, Washington Journal, 22.12.20. Had already stated no fraud to effect change in election. “I’ve already commented on fraud …systemic fraud that wouldchange the results of the election. I stand by that statement. …If I thought a special counsel was the right tool …I haven’t and I’m not going to.”

Barr. 13.6.22 first public hearing, c-span. “The Dept. in fact when we …made an effort to look into these to satisfy ourselves that they were without merit …. There was an avalanche of all of these allegations of fraud that built up over a number of days, and it was like playing a game of whack-a-mole, b/c something wd come out one day and then the next day it wd be another issue. …Also I was influenced by the fact that all of the early claims that I understood were completely bogus and silly and usually based on complete misinformation. And so I didn’t consider the quality of the claims (laughing) out of the box to give me any feeling that there was really any substance here.” “they’re just not meritorious and they’re just not panning out” is what he recalled saying directly to Trump in the Oval Office. He said that even Mark Meadows. On leaving the Oval Office meeting and Barr was asking Kushner how far Trump wd take these allegations, and Meadows said: “Look. I think he’s becoming more realistic and he knows that there’s a limit to how far he can take this.” And Kushner said “We’re working on it.” ******** Jared Kushner.

Barr. No evidence of fraud “and I really still haven’t seen anything that changed my mind on that.” 13.6.22 c-span. “including the 2,000 mules movie [laughing].” 2,000 mules.

******** John Barrasso. On Fox News Sunday, from Washington Journal 7.2.22. “I voted to certify the presidential election.” Import both of his statements from this interview.

******** the BBC. BBC World News, Carl Nasman. 5.1.23. “Trump also repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and that the FBI was involved in the January 6th attack.”

******** The BBC. ************** 21.6.22. BBC World News America. Laura Travellian. “the committee also heard about the threats and the harassment of Georgia state election workers Arshaye Moss and her mother Ruby Freeman. They were WRONGLY accused by Mr. Trump and his lawyer of committing voter fraud.” “this scheme by President Trump to pressure state legislators to put forward FAKE electors.” Not what the BBC would say to indicate that the US presidential election was a FRAUD!!!! Also, BBC’s reporter and North America BBC correspondent Nomia Iqbar, on the lead story interview with Trevellians: “part of a larger plot either to try to get …state legislatures to send fake ballots to Congress to be counted.” “They became the target of Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani when they were wrongly and disturbingly accused of dumping fake ballots for president Biden. It’s all been completely debunked.” “Trump ...pressure to try to turn the election his way to try to throw out the LEGITIMATE result by President Biden.”

******** The BBC. BBC World News Outside Source; lead story 21.6.22. Ros Atkins. “president Trump pressured them to overturn the results of the election WITH NO GOOD CAUSE.” “AZ and GA, two of the states who voted for Joe Biden”.

******** David Becker. Center for Election and Innovation Research. Face the Nation, 9.1.22. “Our democracy is in crisis now; I’m as concerned as I’ve ever been. …are begin fueled by lies by the losing presidential candidate of their party. We are now over 400 days after what was by ANY measure the most secure, transparent, scrutinized and verified election in American history; more audits of those ballots than ever before, more court scrutiny and verification of the outcomes than ever before, including judges appointed by the losing presidential candidate himself.” “in GA and in those other states, the election was run EXCEEDINGLY well …” also, on Face the Nation, 11.2.24; “an election where everyone agrees that there was no fraud and the it was legitimate.”

David Becker. Conference, c-span.11.7.22. “The 2020 election, and I’ve said this many times, and I’ll say this many more times; it was the most secure, transparent and verified election in American history. And this is objectively true. More paper ballots cast than ever before, more audits of those ballots than ever before, …more post-election litigation to clarify and confirm the outcome. And yet despite this, we are still suffering from this endless attack on democracy.”

David Becker. Washington Journal, 29.6.21. “laws …all around the country. In states like GA, FL, AZ, AK, IA, we can go on and on and on; TX for sure. MI. these laws are being passed not in response to legitimate concerns about election integrity. They’re being passed in response to a lie. They’re being passed in response to the idea that there was something insecure about this election. And th simple fact was this absolutely was simply the most secure, transparent, and verified election in American history.” Full paper ballots in GA for first time. every ballot was counted by hand. Also, 19.10.22 Washington Journal. “they want everybody to engage in a game of whack-a-mole, where they keep throwing up different claims, none of which can be proven in court, none of which they even OFFERED to prove in court. They just like to put them out on social media, and fund-raise off of them.” Also, “Firing Line”, 2.8.24, “We can’t say for sure that there were zero noncitizens voting, but it is pretty close to zero, and this is a KNOWABLE thing.” “100% sure …a really well-run election …2024. What I’m really worried about is that a losing candidate might spread lies about the election regardless.” Also, on voter lists. “Our lists are better than they have ever been.” Paper ballots. ‘all of the people in all of the battleground states.” Also, import extended quote on noncitizen voting. Deportations, penalties, …very little benefit. “Our elections today are as secure, transparent, accessible and verifiable as they have ever been in American history and it’s not close.”

Paul Begala. State of the Union, 15.5.22. Begala said Trump won PA by over 80,000 votes. Mastriano “denies that fact. He is a liar. ...It seems to be a litmus test on the R. side.”

******** Michael Bender, Wall Street Journal White House reporter; Book TV, 2.8.21. he’d been saying for years he wd never lose a fair fight. He even alleged voter fraud at the Emmy nominations for “The Apprentice”. Golly!

Katie Benner. New York Times. Justice Dept. reporter. Morning Joe, 28.9.22. “this ongoing lie that Donald Trump won the election”.

Geoff Bennett. PBS News Hour. c. 28.1.22. Trump’s “debunked” allegations of election fraud. Import verbatim quote.

******** Guy Benson. Political editor, Townhall.com. Fox News Contributor, Media Buzz, 2.1.22. on January 6. Townhall.com. “he deserves a lot of criticism for what happened on January 6. I think he was principally responsible for what happened there, driving the election lies that he did. I think it is fair to stand up and tell the truth about that.”

Jocelyn Benson. Michigan Secretary of State. C-span. “in 2020, seeing very clearly, and living VERY clearly, when people with guns showed up outside my home in dark night in December; I’m inside with my 4-year-old son trying to keep my family safe, that’s real. And they showed up there, just like they showed up on the Capitol on January 6th because they’d been lied to and fed misinformation.” 28.3.24. Michigan.

******** Berkeley Research Group. Trump paid them to find fraud and irregularities in six states. But then he kept the results hidden. Morning Joe, 13.2.23.

******** Kathy Bernier. Wisconsin Republican state Senator, chair of the elections committee. Voted twice for Trump. “Was the 2020 vote in WI clean and fair?” “Yes.” “The election was not stolen from DT?” “No. the election was not stolen from DT.” “I don’t know why ppl don’t want to hear the truth. But it is my Christian values to tell the truth. And I will. There’s no evidence of voter fraud.” 60 Minutes, 13.3.22. ******** Megan wolf. Appointed to the WI Election Assistance Commission, created by R.s. unanimously approved by R.s appointed 3y ago. Appointed the director of national elections directors. “When we say that the election in WI was free and fair, we’re not guessing. We know that b/c we hv audited the election. We hv recounted the election. We hv canvassed the election. There are court….” “ppl are looking for a different answer to support a different conclusion. …other ppl that I think are trying to weaponize misinformation to mislead ppl for a partisan purpose.” Wisconsin.

Carl Bernstein. Amanpour, 11.1.22. “It’s amazing; it’s astonishing what happened on January 6th…. It’s amazing what those Senators and congressmen have done since to embrace the untruth of what happened on January 6th.” Also, see Bob Woodward.

Carl Bernstein. “the duly constituted, free election of Joe Biden as president of the United States, and staged a coup…” 8.6.22.

Quote from Joe Biden. Video. 29.7.22 “Washington Week”. From Monday. “For three hours, the defeated former president of the United States watched it all happen. Brave law enforcement officers …face-to-face with a crazed mob who believed the lies of the disgraced former president.”

******** the Bipartisan Policy Center. Rachel Orey. **** BPC. From WJ, 7.11.22. “We see groups like True the Vote or The Election Integrity Network, organizations which are quite outwardly and vigorously espousing lies about the 2020 election….” ******** True the Vote. ******** The Election Integrity Network.

******** Ken Block. import video. Ken Block, op-ed USA Today; “Trump paid for then ignored my ’20 probe”. An election integrity workers. David Becker, wj 3.1.23. Block. is a Republican. Trump hired him to assess whether there was fraud in the 2020 election. “And what he found was that there was no fraud that he could measure that wd hv affected the outcome of the election whatsoever.” Block: “What we found was that there was no fraud that changed the outcome of the election. …What claims of voter fraud don’t take into account is that that voter fraud is detectable, quantifiable and verifiable. I have yet to see anyone offer up ‘evidence’ of voter fraud from the 2020 election that provides these three things. ” The title of the article was: “Trump paid me to find voter fraud. Then he lied after I found 2020 election wasn’t stolen.” The title of his book is “Disproven.” His team was given claims by people like Sidney Powell and Giuliani. “and every single claim that I looked at I was able to prove that they were false claims and not true.” There wr about 15 claims “and some of the claims were really bonkers. They were easy to prove that they were true or they were false.” Also the mathematical theories. Import bull video. Interview on MORNING JOE, MSNBC 4.1.23.

******** Roy Blunt. Meet the Press, 6.6.21. given explicit abundant chance to say Trump is telling the truth; asked explicitly about his lies; still, no profile in courage. never asserted a stolen election.

************************* John Boehner. !!!! Former R. majority leader!!!! “then when the election happens and he loses and then he continues to tell people that the election was stolen, without providing any real evidence of misdeeds done in these states that were close – NONE. I think he abused the loyalty and the trust of people who voted for him by continuing to tell them things that were really just weren’t true.” News Hour, 15.4.21. also, Colbert Report, “they’re going to steal the election, they’re going to steal the election, and then after the election claiming that the election was stolen w/o providing one ounce of evidence. I kept looking; where’s the evidence? And as someone who voted for Donald Trump …. here he is lying to them about the outcome of the election – all of that intended to incite an awful lot of ppl to show up on Jan. 6, …”

******** John Bolton. Strong extended quote, “The Source”, CNN, 8.8.24.

******** Max Boot. The Washington Post. Formerly The Wall Street Journal, Council on Foreign Relations and The Christian Science Monitor. Amanpour, 22.10.21. “the R. party has moved even further in support of The Big Lie” “coup attempt”.

******** Mark Braden, c-span, 1.10.21. “in response to what is alleged to be an election crisis that we’re in. And I wd suggest to you that in fact we don’t have an election administration crisis. We might hv a crisis of confidence in our system. But we don’t hv an election administration crisis. Our elections are generally well-run in this country. Th winners are almost always certified the winners of the election. There’s real indication of massive fraud. There’s no real indication of suppress of minorities to any reasonable degree across the country. Sure there’s ...on occasion, and fraud does occasionally happen. But these are all incidental issues. They are not major issues. So the last election should not have triggered anything resembling an election crisis.” By comparison, “the 2000 election was genuinely in doubt. that was a genuine crisis.” Unanimous consensus that led to reform. Baker Hostetler. “ I think it’s fair to refer to the former president as the arsonist, the fellow who started the fire of a lack of confidence in our system.”

Former Rep. Charles Boustany, R., LA. See entry on National Council on Election Integrity; “NCEI members worked to neutralize the false narrative of widespread election fraud in the media, including attempts to question the security of mail ballots that sowed serious doubt in our democratic process. Both before and after Election Day, the council amplified a message aimed at encouraging patience and a peaceful transfer of power regardless of the outcome.”

******** Adam Brandon. ******** FreedomWorks. “do you believe the last election was free and fair?” “Yeah, I do.” Washington Journal, 20.7.21.

William Brangham. PBS Newshour. 22.12.23. “a spokesman for President Trump re-iterated this ongoing lie that the election was rigged and stolen….” “Again, at the risk of repeating myself, there was no evidence of election fraud in Michigan. No court case that was brought ever showed that that was the case. A state review run by state Republicans in the legislature found the same; Joe Biden won Michigan fair and square.” ******** Michigan.

******** Ian Bremmer. Zakaria GPS, 7.1.24. “I want to be very, very clear. If you’re a democracy and you have an election where a former president has tried to subvert, tried to steal the previous election outcome, the election shd be first and foremost about THAT….”

Brennan Center. Sean Morales-Doyle. C-s-span. 21.10.22 air. “Voter fraud is vanishingly rare. It almost never happens. And certainly does not happen at a rate that is going to impact the outcomes of major elections like a presidential election.” “But the idea that there’s some kind of widespread conspiracy among voters to cast ballots in someone else’s name, or to cast ballots when they’re ineligible, that’s extra-ordinarily rare, and it makes sense that it is, because the sort of calculus doesn’t even really make a whole lot of sense. Going and casting one ballot for somebody else, when that’s a felony offense, one you’re likely to be caught for and prosecuted – what’s the motivation? You’re not really going to change the outcome of an election.”

Brennan Center. Gowri Ramachandran. Hearing, c-span, 25.8.22 air. “the November, 2020 election was widely considered the most secure in American history. But an anti-democracy movement, fueled by the Big Lie poses serious threats to elections.”

******** Mark Brnovich. DEFINITIVE. Washington Post “nearly a year after the 2020 election, AZ’s then-attorney general …quickly consumer MORE THAN 10,000 hours of his staff’s time.” But “report in 2022 stating that virtually all claims of error and malfeasance were unfounded, ..internal documents …Brnovich ..KEPT IT PRIVATE. In April …running …for a US Senate seat ...’interim Report” claiming ..had discovered ‘serious vulnerabilities.” He LEFT OUT EDITS from his OWN investigators refuting his assertions…” import more text! Citation. 23.2.23. lying bastard!!!! ******************

******** Mark Brnovich. Republican Attorney General. ******** Arizona. 60 Minutes30.10.22. response to allegations of fraud: “horse shit. And that’s what it is. Most of it is horse shit. And I’ve been trying to scrape it off of my shoes for the last year.” He supported Trump. Trump personally called Brnovich; “and he goes: ‘all you’ve got to do is say the election is fraudulent, and you will be a superstar. You will be the most popular guy in America.’ And I told him I didn’t become AT to be a star ….” Import full quote. “What he’s doing is bringing indictments in every 2020 vote fraud case that he can back with evidence. All together, to date, from the general election, AZ has indicted 12 defendants in cases involving a total of 12 ballots. 12. Statewide. Biden won AZ by 10,000.” Import more text from interview. “there were a lot of clown out there who saw what they wanted to see. …It’s like a giant grift in some ways.”

******** Mark Brnovich. ********The Arizona Republic. 22.2.23. from Washington Journal, C-SPAN, 23.2.22. “The AZ AG’s Office concluded months ago there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 elections results in Maricopa County – but the state’s top prosecutor sat on the information and suppressed mitigating details, newly released records show.. An investigative report and two internal memos from 2022 …Brnovich was aware ..’did not uncover any criminality or fraud’ …WEEKs before Brnovich reported the county’s election system was vulnerable and the process for verification and handling ..broken.” “newly elected ...Mayes …the public was misled …. “The ppl of AZ had a right to KNOW THIS before the 2022 election. …solemn duty to be transparent and honest ….”

Anthony Brooks. On Point. Podcast on NPR. 15.4.24. “How to steal an election. It almost happened in 2020. And, ever since, Donald Trump has repeated the lie – again and again – that he won that election.”

******** Arthur Brooks. Former President of The American Enterprise Institute. Currently Harvard University professor. Washington Journal, 18.2.21. “the current administration …legitimately won the election..”

******** David brooks. PBS Newshour analyst and New York Times columnist. import full text 2.7.21. “there is no ...major voting fraud. ...in service to the lie that Trump …” it’s just trying to stop the other side from voting. Also, New York Times, “essentially zero fraud”. Washington Journal7.1.22.

David brooks. News Hour, 7.5.21; “you sort of more or less have to lie to qualify as a Republican, and that’s the standard that’s now being laid down…”

******** Mo Brooks. 12.11.22. “I challenge anybody to make the argument that you can trust the word of Donald Trump.” From Washington Journal, c-span, 15.11.22.

Ron Brownstein. CNN analyst with many former professional affiliations. “The Big Lie”. Reliable Sources, 26.6.22.

Mika Brzezinski. Morning Joe. 20.6.22. “president Trump responds with some of his favorite lies about the 2020 election….” Also, 23.6.22; “will unveil new evidence on how DT tried to get the Justice Dept to help overturn the 2020 election and keep him in power despite the fact that he lost.” Also, 8.8.22. good quote.

******** Ken Buck. Republican Congress Rep. “I left b/c I could not tell a lie. The 2020 election was not stolen.” Daily Show, 3.6.24.

Philip Bump. Washington Post reporter, Morning Joe, Trump …spent years after the election claiming it WAS stolen, obviously without any evidence for that.” 30.8.22.

******** George W. Bush. Jimmy Carter. Barack Obama. Bill Clinton, New York Times 5.1.22. “All four of us former presidents ...affirmed the legitimacy of the 2020 election.”

******** Alex Cannon. Campaign lawyer to President Trump. Video. Nov 2020 job involved investigating election fraud allegations; worked for Trump. Also had been working for campaign. Call to meadows. “I remember telling him that we wrn’t finding anything that wd be sufficient to change any of the results in any of the key states.” First broadcast January 6 commission hearings. 9.6.22.

Alex Cannon. 13.6.22 public hearing, c-span. Told president didn’t believe the Dominion allegations b/c the GA hand recount wd hv resolved any issue with voting technology. [also, MASSIVE contradictions wd hv been revealed in the vote totals in GA, a crucial swing state. wd hv been off by at least tens of thousands of votes.] he personally wasn’t finding anything in his role in investigating allegations of fraud.

Jonathan Capehart. News Hour, 15.10.21. “and there are ppl out there who are wallowing in the big lie.”

******** Tucker Carlson. Mediaite 11.1.21. even he refused to claim fraud. “Some of the conspiracy coverage was more oblique (you could also call it cowardly). Tucker Carlson flatly said that the election was stolen, but he clarified that it wasn’t through fraud: it was rigged by a cabal of media conglomerates and “Big Tech” platforms that stacked the deck against the common man.” RN. *******

U.S. Senator Tom Carper, DE. “lies; let me repeat lies …bizarre ...unfounded.” Floor, 5.1.21.

President Jimmy Carter. ******** George W. Bush. Jimmy Carter. Barack Obama. Bill Clinton, New York Times 5.1.22. “All four of us former presidents ...affirmed the legitimacy of the 2020 election.”

Retired General James Cartright, former Chair of the Chiefs of Staff. See entry on National Council on Election Integrity; “NCEI members worked to neutralize the false narrative of widespread election fraud in the media, including attempts to question the security of mail ballots that sowed serious doubt in our democratic process. Both before and after Election Day, the council amplified a message aimed at encouraging patience and a peaceful transfer of power regardless of the outcome.”

******** Neil Cavuto. Fox News Network. E.g., Morning Joe, MSNBC 1.3.24. “He still lost that election. That is not is not in doubt anymore. That is not being debated anymore. From Fox, 29.2.24. video.

******** The Center for Democracy and Technology. ******** Samir Jain. AEI forum, c-span, 4.11.22. “and I feel like we’re getting to a point where if their candidate loses, they just feel that that means that the election was illegitimate. …and I think that the disinformation and misinformation that we’re seeing online is contributing to that belief.”

David Chalian. CNN. Also former NewsHour. New Day with John Berman. 12.5.22. “Gov. Kemp approved and certified a legitimate victory for Joe Biden in 2020 when DT wanted him to overturn the election based on a lie.” Kemp being challenged for re-election as governor of Georgia by Perdue, who is a Big Lie candidate. Yet Kemp is supported even by the Republican National Governors Association. And ******** Pete Rickets. Governor of Nebraska. ******** Nebraska. He is visiting Georgia to campaign for Kemp against the Big Lie candidate David perdue.

******** Mona Charen. c-span 27.2.22. “We live in the era of the big lie…. Donald Trump introduced Vladimir Putin-style lying and disinformation into American life.”

******** Dick Cheney. Political ad for Liz Cheney. From Morning Joe, 5.8.22. “He tried to steal the last election, using lies and violence to try to keep himself in power, after the voters had rejected him. He’s a coward; a real man wouldn’t lie to his supporters. He lost his election. And he lost big. I know it. He knows it. And deep down, I think most Republicans know it.” Video. Good extended quote.

Dick Cheney. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him.” From Morning Joe, 9 Sept., 2024.

Michael Chertoff, US Secretary of Homeland Security in the George W. Bush administration. See entry on National Council on Election Integrity; “NCEI members worked to neutralize the false narrative of widespread election fraud in the media, including attempts to question the security of mail ballots that sowed serious doubt in our democratic process. Both before and after Election Day, the council amplified a message aimed at encouraging patience and a peaceful transfer of power regardless of the outcome.”

******** Chris Christie. “At 2:30am on election night when the president made the speech that he made -- President Trump – I said it was unfounded and that and that there was no evidence of ANY evidence of anything like what he was talking about and that he needed to stop.” This Week, 19.9.21.

Chris Christie. “..lying about his losing the 2020 election.” C-span, 4.23. in Henniker NH.

Chris Christie. “there’s been no evidence of widespread fraud. And that’s been determined by R. and D. governors across the country, and that’s been determined most importantly by the R. attorney General of the United States Bill Barr, who no one can say has not been a loyal fighter for the president. …so that’s what I’ve been saying; if there is evidence, show us the evidence. There’s been no evidence shown.” Chris Christie, this week, 3.1.21. s

Chris Christie. “There was no evidence in Georgia of any type of theft of the election in the state of Georgia.” Amanpour, 4.5.22.

******** Bobby Christine. (Sp?). 13.6.22. US Attorney after Pak. Hearing c-span. Pak said his understanding was he didn’t find anything either. “But he was unable to find ANY evidence of fraud that affected the outcome of the election.”

Chris Cillizza. “falsely claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen ….over an election that was fairly conducted.” CNN 7:22A, 24.12.21.

President Bill Clinton. ******** George W. Bush. Jimmy Carter. Barack Obama. Bill Clinton, New York Times 5.1.22. “All four of us former presidents ...affirmed the legitimacy of the 2020 election.”

Hillary Clinton. Former Senator, (D., NY), former Secretary of State, democratic nominee for President, C-span 17.9.23. “Why [are we] .. buying into lies that have no basis in truth, facts, evidence at all about our elections?”

CNN.com. from Washington Journal 19.12.21. “Federal, state and local election officials all hv said there’s no evidence of widespread election fraud that wd hv affected the outcome of the presidential election.” CNN politics.

CNN Politics. ******** Mark Finchem. Arizona House of Representatives. Republican nominee for Arizona Secretary of State, endorsed by Donald Trump. “pushes false claim that Pelosi, Schumer and Schiff weren’t legitimately elected.” From Late Night with Stephen Colbert, 2.11.22.

CNN. Video. From 28.6.24 MORNING JOE, MSNBC. Their fact-checker in chief; “zero evidence of widespread fraud”. ******** Daniel Dale.

Former Senator Dan Coats, also Trump’s Director of National Intelligence. See entry on National Council on Election Integrity; “NCEI members worked to neutralize the false narrative of widespread election fraud in the media, including attempts to question the security of mail ballots that sowed serious doubt in our democratic process. Both before and after Election Day, the council amplified a message aimed at encouraging patience and a peaceful transfer of power regardless of the outcome.”

******** Ty Cobb. White House counsel during Mueller investigation. Trump’s actions to decertify the 2020 election were “criminal”. Morning Joe, 12.9.22. “The first time in American history that a president unconstitutionally attempted to remain in power illegally.”

******** Ty Cobb. Out Front with Erin Burnett. 1.8.23. CNN. “The absence of evidence of fraud in Georgia is badly evident to anyone who’s familiar with the Georgia example.”

******** William Cohen. Former Republican U.S. Senator from Maine. Former Secretary of Defense. On Point, 6.1.21. “he’s telling them that fraud was committed even when it wasn’t. ....an allegation which is completely false and fraudulent, issued from the mouth of the president of the United States.”

Stephen Colbert, with Schiff. 19.10.21. import his quotes. Heartfelt despair.

Caitlin Collins. CNN. From Media Buzz, 14.1.24. CNN cut away from a Trump news conference: “A few fact checks and reality statements on what you’re hearing there: There is no evidence of voter fraud.” CNN.

Caitlin Collins. Town hall moderator for Trump: “It was not a rigged election. It was not a stolen election.” Town hall CNN 10.5.23. MORNING JOE, MSNBC 11.5.23.

******** Doug Collins. U.S Congress Representative for Georgia, Trump supporter. At least a little bit. When shown fellow Georgian video of Raffensperger, “I stood on the truth, I stood on the law and I stood on the facts ….” etc., long quote; his response was “I respect his position…” Washington Journal 9.1.22.

******** Colorado. Velshi, 3.3.24. Williams and Peters hv taken control of GOP. Election deniers. But 22 or so Republican state and federal officials wrote open letter in Denver Post: “support your local R. Clerk and Recorders, who administer with integrity …serves our Constitution and every Coloradan….”

******** Rep. Barbara Comstock, R., Virginia 10th Congressional District. Washington Journal, 18.5.21; “his claims have turned out to be provably false again and again.” “Donald Trump’s Big Lie” “just in my mind a sore loser”. Many candidates outran Trump in those districts/states. “History will not be kind to those who are pushing the big lie b/c it is so easily disproved.”

******** Barbara Comstock. Also Michael Luttig. New York Times. “the Trump Threat is Growing.” “growing crowd of grifters, frauds and con men willing to subvert the Constitution and long-established constitutional principles for the whims of political expediency.” From Velshi, 26.11.23.

Retired Gen. James Comstock. See entry on National Council on Election Integrity; “NCEI members worked to neutralize the false narrative of widespread election fraud in the media, including attempts to question the security of mail ballots that sowed serious doubt in our democratic process. Both before and after Election Day, the council amplified a message aimed at encouraging patience and a peaceful transfer of power regardless of the outcome.”

******** Kellyanne Conway. Her book: “Rather than accepting responsibility for the loss, they played along and lent full-throated encouragement …when Trump kept insisting he won. ....by not confronting the candidate with the grim reality of his situation, that the proof had not surfaced to support the claims, …I may have been the first person DT trusted in his inner circle who told him that he had come up short” in the election.

******** Charlie Cook. Washington Journal, 30.10.22. “There’s never been any evidence that early voting’s ever been less honest or more open to fraud than Election Day voting. …When President Trump started attacking early voting, he started driving down the credibility of early voting, without any evidence, I believe …. Our country, we’re facing so many problems in this country; voter fraud is not one. I mean, it’s just not. There’s very, very little. …Early voting is absolutely just as safe and as reliable as Election Day voting. I don’t know anybody who knows a lot about elections, in either party, who actually believes that there’s a voter fraud problem in this country.” Over and over again, he said to callers that there is no evidence, challenging them to refute that assertion. The problem is that “people are angry about things that don’t exist.” “at least so far our elections have been decided in a fair way…” import more quotes from segment. His final remark “undermining the peaceful transfer of power”.

******** Charlie Cook. ************** import video from Charlie Cook, wj, 21.4.24. definitive statements; noncitizens NEVER vote almost at all; and they are caught. No fraud, and it is caught when it occurs. Experts on election integrity are ALL in agreement that it is extremely rare and there are exhaustive safeguards in place. RN. Import text. Charlie Cook.

******** the Cook Political Report. ******** Jessica Taylor. Washington Journal 23.8.22. “It isn’t just that Trump has backed weaker candidates. Trump has also kept out stronger candidates from running, simply b/c he has grudges against them b/c they didn’t fall .... didn’t believe his Big Lie that the election was stolen.” “I mean, when I’m talking to candidates, I have to ask them real questions like “Do you think that the election was stolen?” and it’s not an actual question I should be having to ask candidates, but that is the reality of where we are now, and you’re only going to get Trump’s endorsement if you pledge fealty to him, and that includes, again, the preposterous lie that the 2020 election was stolen, when it was not.” ***************** also, “trump lost that election, fair and square.” Washington Journal 24.8.22. also, 4.11.22 Washington Journal. “his bogus claims of election fraud…”

Anderson Cooper. 60 Minutes. “the continued propagation of former President trump’s big lie about the election...” Robert Gates. He didn’t challenge that assertion. 17.10.21.

Nick Corasaniti, national Political Reporter, the New York Times. Velshi, 21.1.24. “embrace ‘The Big Lie’.”

******** Bob Corker. Frontline, “Lies, Politics and Democracy”, Season 40, Episode 17, 7.9.22. “The lesson in all of this is if you accommodate a demagogue, someone who is telling untruths and leading hard-working Americans to a place, when you accommodate that, ….” Extended quote.

******** John Cornyn. Floor, 17.11.22. “Since the REAL president, President Biden, was elected to office, …” [his emphasis]

******** Robert Costa. Former reporter for The Washington Post, currently political director for CBS. Face the Nation, 24.12.23. “Some share his false claims that he won the election in 2020. He did not.”

******** Tom Cotton. Statement on Jan. 6 2021: “It’s past time for the president to accept the results of the election….” From “This Week”, 5.5.24.

******** Dan Cox. ******** American Enterprise Institute. ******** AEI.; “It’s really hard to break through b/c you’re already primed to think that there’s potential fraud. And your friends and neighbors are already saying, oh yeah, my friends and neighbors saw something too ....that looked kind of peculiar. …the whole idea that we’re just raising questions is particularly pernicious. b/c that’s like what you’re doing is undermining confidence in the system b/c these questions are for the most part unanswerable, and they’re SUPPOSED to be that way, right?” c-span, 21.6.21.

******** former Rep. Carlos Curbelo, (R., FL). “2022 Midterms.” Special night-time broadcast of “morning Joe”. 6.11.22. “and some of these people are blatant liars” about the election denier candidates. Good extended quote. “the most dangerous thing in our elections”. Import verbatim.

******** Cyber Ninjas.******** Mark Brnovich. ******** Arizona. Cyber ninjas alleged 282 dead people voted. Final result by Arizona R. Attorney General investigation showed only one. Morning Joe, 2.8.22. “Our agents investigated all individual that cyber ninjas reported as dead, ....very surprised to learn they were allegedly deceased.”

******** Sen. John Danforth. Import excellent extended quote from Washington Journal, C-SPAN, 12.7.24. “divisiveness …that’s his basic appeal. ..when u try to upset an election, when u try to claim that elections are rigged …that the courts, that the judges are corrupt, it’s all rigged. …. It’s a direct attack on our constitutional order.” Aso an author of the “Lost, not stolen” report: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election” report by a group of respected conservative authors.

Oliver Darcy. “the lies pushed by this right-wing media machine”. CNN media correspondent. Reliable Sources, 27.3.22.

Former Senator Tom Daschle, (D., SD) and former Senate Majority Leader. See entry on National Council on Election Integrity; “NCEI members worked to neutralize the false narrative of widespread election fraud in the media, including attempts to question the security of mail ballots that sowed serious doubt in our democratic process. Both before and after Election Day, the council amplified a message aimed at encouraging patience and a peaceful transfer of power regardless of the outcome.”

Former Rep. John Delaney (D-MD). Fox News Sunday, 7.1.24; Biden “won the election….”

******** Charlie Dent. Republican member of Congress. Velshi, 21.1.24. “Josh Shapiro did not deny the election.”

******** Ron DeSantis. “on Aug. 4 about D. Trump’s claims of widespread fraud …’All those theories that were put out did not prove to be true.’ …two days later, ‘Of course he lost.” Ramesh Ponnuru. Op-ed Washington Post 11.8.23.

******** Detroit. Barr, from second public hearing, c-span 13.6.22. import full quote. When Trump said huge trucks arriving and ballots being “dumped”; Barr explained that there were over 600 precincts and they are all counted centrally. Of COURSE, they were arriving all night! “Did anybody ever point out to you that you actually did better in Detroit than you did last time? Ther’s no indication of fraud in Detroit.” Import full quote; bullshit.

******** Gov. Mike DeWine. Ohio. “P. Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the election, despite producing no credible evidence of a rigged election …has threatened to bring down our democracy.” played during impeachment hearing.

John Dickerson. CBS News. From “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” 8.11.22. on election deniers running for Congress in 2022: “people who are going to win tonight -- 150 have already won – who are lying about the last election. And that is poison that you are pouring into the American system.”

******** Bob Dole. Dole who endorsed Trump for president, Washington Journal, 22.7.21 from USA Today; “Dole said there’s no question that Trump lost his reelection race in 2020 ....fair and square. ‘He lost the election, and I regret that he did, but they did,’ Dole said. …’never had one bit of fraud in all those lawsuits ....and statements. .... I’m a Trumper.’” Also, News Hour 6.12.21. “He lost. It’s over. There was no voter fraud.” Also, Amy Walter.

******** Dominion voting machines. “and they were idiotic claims.” AG Bill Barr. From 13.6.22 second public hearing c-span. “and I specifically raised the Dominion voting machines, which I found to be among the most disturbing allegations, disturbing in the sense that I saw absolutely zero basis for the allegations, but they were made in such a sensational way…”

******** Dominion voting machines. Trump gave report to Barr saying it was “definitive” proof by top firm; Barr looked through it, “To be frank it looked very amateurish to me, it didn’t have any of the credentials of the ppl involved. I didn’t see any real qualifications, and the statements were made very conclusory …” import full quote. 13.6.22 public hearing. C-span. “He’s becoming d3tached from reality if he really believed some of this stuff. Ther was never any really interest in what the actual facts really were.”

******** Dominion Voting Machines. ******** Chris Krebs. Trump Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Dept. of Homeland Security. 60 Minutes. 23.10.22. “None of these lies has been substantiated to any extent. Every single one of them has been debunked.” CISA. After he said it was the most secure election in American history, Trump fired him days later. Trump did not want the director to be contradicting his allegations. Import the definitive final statement by Dominion CEO.

******** Richard Donoghue. Acting Trump Deputy Attorney General. (after AG Barr had quit). “And I recall, toward the end, saying what you’re proposing is nothing less than the United States Justice Department meddling in the outcome of a presidential election.” And he was appointed by Trump at the end. And Richard Donoghue. He was also appointed by Trump. 9.6.22 c-span. January 6 commission.

Richard Donoghue. 13.6.22 public hearing c-span. To President: “to try to put it in very clear terms to the president. ....we’ve done dozens of investigations, hundreds of interviews. The major allegations are not supported by the evidence developed. We’ve looked in GA, PA, MI, NV. We’re doing our job. Much of the info you’re getting is false. …for instance, …MI, this report about 68% error rate. Reality is it was only 0.0063% error rate, less than 1 in 15,000. ....he said, ok, fine. But what about the others?” import full quote. “WE look at the evidence but they don’t pan out.” Antrim county. and Fulton County. “We looked into that and it’s just not true.” “I told the president myself that several times, in several conversations that these allegations about ballots being smuggled in ....run through ....several times. It was not true. We looked at the video, we interviewed the witnesses; it was not true.”

******** Steve Doocy. ********** Long-time analyst and host for Fox News Network. Host of Fox and Friends morning show. on Fox News Network. 2 August, at 8:03 pacific air; from Media Buzz, “eventually it comes down to, he KNEW that he had lost … but he kept repeating the LIE….” His emphasis. Video.

Maureen Dowd. from Washington Journal, 9.5.21. Cheney “continue calling out Donald Trump’s Big Lie.”

******** Robert Draper. New York Times op/ed. “the failure to reinstall a legitimately defeated president…” from Morning Joe 16.8.22. also, “‘believe the lie that the election was stolen…” “Morning Joe, 21.10.22.

******** Drop boxes. Washington Journal, 18.7.22. Associated Press. Report. “The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 elections did not lead to any widespread problems, …an AP survey of state election officials across the US that revealed no cases of fraud, vandalism or theft that could hv affected the results. The findings from both REPUBLICAN- and Democratic-controlled states run contrary to claims made by ....Trump …who have intensely criticized their use and FALSELY claimed they were a target for fraud.” “Drop boxes also are a focal point of the film ‘2,000 Mules,’ which used a flawed analysis (hypertext!!) of cellphone location data and drop box surveillance footage to cast doubt on ....2020 presidential election.” ******** “2,000 Mules.” “All but 5 states responded to the questions. NONE of the election offices in states that allowed ....drop boxes ....reported ANY instances ....connected to voter fraud or stolen ballots. Likewise, NONE reported incidents ....ballots were damaged to the extent that …” inquiries sent to every state; verify.

******** David Drucker. Senior Political Correspondent, Washington Examiner. Washington Journal, 29.11.21. “unfounded claims that the election was stolen…” Washington Examiner.

******** Doug Ducey. Republican Governor of Arizona. “I’ve been pretty outspoken about AZ’s election system quite a bit, including in the Oval Office. He said it again on the day that AZ certified its election results. ‘As I’ve said before, we do elections well here in AZ. The system is strong. That’s why I hv bragged on it so much.’ On Point, 31.3.21.

******** AZ gov Ducey. “I must say I worked incredibly hard to deliver the state for Donald Trump … up through election day …. I had very little choice but to do the right thing and to follow the law and the constitution.” From SOTU, 31.1.21.

******** Geoff Duncan, former Georgia Republican Lt. Governor. The lies are one of the biggest reasons why I’m a life-long Republican supporting Vice President Harris. The lies are dangerous, they’re reckless. They cause harm. …This is Donald Trump’s game, whether it’s an election or….” CNN Newsroom, 5.10.24.

******** John Eastman. Leader of Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. ********* email in Trump administration deliberations on Trump testimony: “…the President …has ...been made aware that some of the allegations (and evidence proffered by the experts) has bn inaccurate. For him to sign a new verification with that knowledge (and incorporation by reference) wd not be accurate.” Yet Trump went ahead and cited them as fact. 14.11.22. judge ruling. From “Morning Joe”. 20.10.22. email 31.12.20. 6 days before January 6.

******** John Eastman. 60 Minutes. 5.11.23. In Georgia, “He leveled dubious claims of fraud, including votes by 2,500 felons, and 10,000 dead people.” Bill Plant dictation. ******** Bill Plant. ******** 60 Minutes. ******** Mike Pence. Trump said “the Vice President and I are in complete and total agreement”, Greg Jacobs. “I was outraged, b/c I knew it was categorically false.” Video. Trump lied; Pence had bn crystal clear multiple times that he did not have the power to reject an election that he was the VP candidate. Bill Plant: “You said 2,500 convicts; the investigation [by Raffensperger] found 4. You said 10,000 dead voters. The investigation found 4.” Eastman actually said “as many as 2,500”. Plant: “No state had reported fraud that wd hv overturned its election result.” Jacobs sent Eastman emails DURING the coup: “Thanks to your bullshit we are now under siege.” “a serpent in the ears of the President.” ******** Chapman University. Eastman “was forced to retire as a professor at Chapman University.”

******** The Economist. 14.11.21. “His campaign has produced no evidence of fraud or irregularities large enough to shift tens of thousands of votes in multiple states.”

The Economist 21.11.20. lies. “the effect of R. leaders agreeing that perhaps Mr. Trump really did win damages America’s ability to govern itself.” “88% of Trump voters currently think the result was illegitimate.” He owns the party. “It betrays a contempt for the spirit of democracy and thus a lack of patriotism.” Sidebar: “baseless claims of electoral fraud.”

Marc Elias, Democracy Docket. “The Sunday Show”, 6.10.24. “In 2020 …defeating 64 of 65 lawsuits that Donald Trump threw at us after the election and …he lost all but one of them, and that involved no vote change.” Lost court cases.

******** Jenna Ellis. ******** Trump lawyer. Leader in the big lie. From Morning Joe, MSNBC 29.5.24. from public statement: “I failed to do my due diligence. I believe in, and value, election integrity. If I knew then what I know NOW, I wd hv declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges. I look back on these experiences with deep remorse. I …apologize to the people of Georgia.”; Atlanta, 24.10.23.. She pleaded GUILTY to aiding and abetting false statements, felony.

******** Mark Esper. Trump Secretary of Defense. “tried to undermine the 2020 election results …a threat to our democracy.” On CBS, from Media Buzz, 15.5.22. also, News Hour, 10.5.22,“insurrection, an attempt to overturn a free and fair election”.

******** Facebook. The Facebook Oversight Review Board (title?) upheld and made permanent the Facebook Trump ban: from the Hill, direct quote, from Washington Journal, 5.5.21. “in maintaining an unfounded narrative of electoral fraud and persistent calls to action …”

******** The Fact Checker. Washington Post. 6.11.22. “55% of registered ...extremely or very concerned about voter fraud. …almost 90% …vote on paper ballots.” Must be increased to 100%! Link: elections, fraud. “Trump ...embraced false claims …. Heritage Foundation …database …That’s an average of 32 examples per year …documented. …a report from the conservative Public Interest Legal Foundation ...found more than 150 referrals of POTENTIAL criminal violations of election law in 2020 had been ignored in Florida. …at least 86 judges …consistently found there was no substantive evidence to support claims of fraud and irregularities. …Arizona’s …Karen Fann, the Republican Senate president …’Truth is truth and numbers are numbers.” ******** Karen Fann. ******** Arizona.

Fake electors. January 6 committee staff member: “ultimately, fake electors DID meet on Dec. 14th, 2020, in AZ, GA, MI, PA, NM, NV and Wi.” Golly! Signed documents falsely asserting that they were the ‘duly elected’ electors from their state….” Submitted to Pence. C-span hearing 21.6.22. ******** Arizona. Amazingly, even the Speaker of the Arizona House of Delegates WAS NOT AWARE that fake elector slates purportedly representing AZ were submitted to Washington!!!!! Freaking amazing!!!!!

Former Senator Russ Feingold, (D., WI). See entry on National Council on Election Integrity; “NCEI members worked to neutralize the false narrative of widespread election fraud in the media, including attempts to question the security of mail ballots that sowed serious doubt in our democratic process. Both before and after Election Day, the council amplified a message aimed at encouraging patience and a peaceful transfer of power regardless of the outcome.”

******** Mark Finchem. 60 Minutes 30.10.22. the segment clearly shows that he is a fraud. Judge it for yourself. Any fair-minded person will conclude that his depiction of the election integrity is flatly incorrect. He called AZ “the epicenter of fraud.” Judge the facts for yourself. The segment is indisputable. For the record, we agree STRONGLY that penalties against fraud need to be far stronger and we need more federally provided resources to ensure that all election processes are strongly funded.

******** former Senator Jeff Flake (R., AZ). “It’s difficult to support a candidate who, having lost an election, tries to use the powers of the presidency to overturn that election. That is anything but respect for the rule of law.” This Week, ABC, 29.9.24. import extended quote.

******** Ari Fleischer. White House Press Secretary, George W. Bush Administration. After Words. C-span. 30.7.22. “The election wasn’t stolen. Donald Trump did lose it. I’ve said that right from the start.”

David Folkenflik, PBS News Hour, 14.12.21. “3/5 of R.s believe that Joe Biden won the 2020 election fraudulently, which is NOT true; and disproven in countless ways in courtrooms and officials both Democratic and Republican.” NPR correspondent.

******** Richard Fowler. Fox News Network contributor. ******** Media Buzz. 10.10.21. “and the president’s line of reasoning hasn’t stood up a day in court, really has no evidence to back it that says somehow, some way this election was stolen from him, and there was massive voter fraud taking place.”

******** Fox News. ******** Trump. ******** Donald Trump. Trump on Truth Social. He admits that even Republican refuse to “speak the truth” about his 2020 election loss. ******** Republicans. 19.2.23 at 3:31pm. “If Republicans …wd speak the truth about the Rigged Presidential Election of 2020, like Fox News should, but doesn’t, …” He admits that even Fox News never “speak the truth”. Man!

******** Fox News Network. Import from Amanpour 10.3.23. Even fox stars and executives actually believed that Trump was all lies about it.

******** Fox News. Fox SETTLED the Dominion lawsuit for $787.5m over election lies. Daily Show, 3.6.24

******** Virginia Foxx. Republican Congress Represenative, North Carolina. Rules Committee markup, C-SPAN, 28.10.21. “I have never said I didn’t respect” the results of the last election. C-span.

Sen. Tom Franken. Video. MORNING JOE, MSNBC, 21.3.23. Senator Lindsey Graham. Guest on Franken’s guest-host on “The Daily Show” on 20.3.23. Senator Graham “agreed that the election wasn’t stolen. And Trump knew that the election wasn’t stolen. And the number one principle of this country is the peaceful transition of power….” Import audio from podcast.

David French. The Dispatch. Also the Atlantic. ?? Morning Joe, 15.8.22. “the stolen election lie.”

Thomas Friedman. c. 28.9.21; New York Times. “fabrication of election fraud”. Also, Washington Week, 7.6.24; Trump doesn’t like Netanyahu “b/c he acknowledged that Joe Biden won the election. I mean: how crazy is that?”

******** David Frum. The Atlantic. Formerly at National Review, speechwriter for George W. Bush, The American Enterprise Institute, Reliable Sources, “if you’re trying to analyze the harm being done to American democracy by an attempted overthrow of an election on January 6th…” 24.7.22.

******** Fulton County. ******** GA. ******** Bill Barr. Trump’s Attorney General. 21.6.22 hearing. Barr: “We took a hard look at this ourselves, and ....the Fulton County allegations had no merit. …interviews …. The ballots under the table were legitimate ballots. All of this about the water leak and there was some subterfuge involved …there was no evidence of any subterfuge …. So we didn’t see any evidence of fraud in the Fulton County episode ….” Richard Donoghue to Trump “sir, we’ve done hundreds of interviews. The major allegations are not supported by the evidence developed.”

******** John Fund. Former long-time writer for The Wall Street Journal, also The National Review. book TV, air 15.8.21. “There is voter fraud. There certainly were exaggerations. There were certainly things that were made up ; of whole cloth after the election. And I think that it was unbelievable reckless, and almost criminal in some cases … you have these grifters on the internet describing election fraud; there was no basis for it. They were demanding audits that frankly weren’t going to deliver anything. The grifters in this business are driving out the ppl who hv legitimate concerns about the state of our elections, and the state of our elections is perilous. And it’s not just about fraud; it’s about …” “No, I don’t think that the election was illegitimate.” But demands improvements. Many Dem voters in 2016 disbelieved.

Amy Gardner. Washington Post. Velshi, 9.10.22. “At the extreme end there are people like Blake and Mastriano who say unequivocally that they wd not hv certified the results of 2020 in their states, AZ and PN, despite the lack of evidence that Trump won those states.”

Major Garrett. CBS. CBS News. Even the title of their book is “The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of The Big Lie.” Co-author is David Becker. Nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research. Morning Joe, 20.9.22.

Major Garrett. CBS. CBS News. On Washington Journal, 19.10.22.

Willie Geist. “pressure by President Trump on the Dept. of Justice to go along with the Big Lie.” Morning Joe. 27.7.22. also, 27.12.23. also, 17.5.24; “Trump supporters claim – again, without evidence – that the 2020 election was stolen.”

******** Georgia. CNN Special Report “Stop the Vote”. ******** AZ official 27.10.21, “What will this new law mean for the protection what ppl call election integrity?” “it basically takes it apart. It destroys it. It blows it up. American democracy is under enormous duress, and every time that we lose an election, we go out and we change the laws based on the whims of our constituents that is unhealthy.“ ******** Baoky Vu, Former Vice Chair of Dekalb County Election Board. Republican.

******** Georgia. Firing Line, 18.11.23. Raffensperger. Conference at the time: “We have now cast all legally valid ballots three times. The and the results remain unchanged. Georgis Secretary of State. Republican. Trump pressure: he didn’t ask to investigate felons; he said “I just want to FIND 11,780 votes.” Raffensperger “has received death threats”. Brownshirts. “I just need 11,000 votes.”

Bart Gelman. 10.12.21 ppl running for Sec. of State “on Trump’s Big Lie program. They claim that Trump won last time against all evidence”. AZ governor candidate. Also, “Morning Joe,” 8.3.23: “Joe Biden Won.” Maricopa supervisors all heavily pressured. AZ was crucial to outcome: “He and his fellow supervisors came under huge pressure from the president on down, not to certify the actual results of the election. …calls from Rudy Giuliani … he’s getting text after text after text from the AZ R. chair Kevin Ward, filled with fabulized claims of fraud and he’s being told … very clearly that his whole political future in AZ hangs on his loyalty to the party.” Import full quote for context. Famous truth teller met with Gellman. Credible death threats. “never goes out in public anymore.” import verbatim. A handful of heroes stopped the coup d’etat. He told Gelman: “well, the candidate for AZ Attorney General just threatened to put me in jail if he wins office.” Verify. election workers everywhere getting phone calls and texts telling them “we know where you live. It’s scary and it’s pervasive, according to one survey during the fall. 50% of all election workers reported harassment, abuse and threats. In urban workers, 75%, ¾ ….” Import verbatim quote. RN. Verify. link: threats. Link: service.

******** Georgia. There were two extremely close Senate elections in Georgia on the same day, extremely consequential for the Republican party and there were ZERO challenges in those two elections. It’s not like someone added 10,000 fake Biden ballots and didn’t add votes for Ossof and Warnock. No accusations that they had be robbed of 10,000 votes. Affidavits were false; ******** David Becker. at AEI forum. ******** AEI.

******** Georgia. Definitive, thorough testimony c-span 21.6.22. Raffensperger and Sterling. Specific meme of calling person, a Dominion staffer a traitor, “God hv mercy on your soul”, image of noose twisting in the wind. Trump tweet after famous Sterling press conference. “rigged Election. Show signatures and envelopes. Expose the massive voter fraud in GA. What is S of S ....afraid of; they know what we’ll find!!!” Man! 1 December 2020, 10:27pm. It was in direct response to tweet of Sterling say someone will get killed. “plain false”. Trump video. At White House. 2.12.20. “They found thousands and thousands of votes that were out of whack. All against me.” Two days after Sterling warning that someone will get killed. Trump video. 5.12.20 Georgia rally. “The evidence of fraud is overwhelming. And again, I’m going to ask you to look up at that very, very powerful and very expensive screen. .so if you just take the crime of what those Democrat workers were doing…. That’s 10X more than I need to win this state. It’s 10X, maybe more than that, b/c I lost by a very small number.” ******** US attorney Bjay Pak. To Trump AG Bill Barr. “We looked into it. ....including interviewing the witnesses. I listened to the tapes, and reviewed the videotape myself. Giuliani was wrong in questioning that this was a suitcase full of ballots.” ******** Fulton County. Barr. “The Fulton County allegations had no merit.” Donoghue. To Trump. Meadow called and texted 18X to Georgia officials to pressure them for call with WH. Trump himself, audio. Call with Frances Watson GA chief election investigator. “You hv the most important job in the country right now …They’re not gonna win right now, you know. They’re down b/c the ppl of Georgia are so ANGRY at what happened to me. They know I won. Won by HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VOTES, IT WSN”T CLOSE.” MAN!!!! “Frankly, when the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised. ....they will be praised. People will say great! b/c that’s what it’s about, the ability to check it and to make it right. B/c everyone knows it's wrong, there’s just no way.” Raffensperger. 28,000 voters left presidential blank and some GA legislators won 33,000 votes more than Trump. That’s why he lost by 11,000 votes. Trump personally pressuring Watson: “whatever you can do Frances. It wd be, it’s a great thing. It’s an important thing for the country, so important. You hv no idea, it’s so important. And I very much appreciate it.” Audio. President of the United States personally calling GA chief election investigator asking her to act, in an election in which he HIMSELF WAS A CANDIDATE!!! MAN!!! Pressured her “working after Christmas, to keep this going fast, b/c you now, we hv that date of the 6th, which is a very important date.” Already focused on overturning the counting of the electors at the joint session of Congress. Trump audio. Call pressuring Raffensperger lasted over 67 minutes. Trump: the minimum it was, was 18,000 ballots, all for Biden.” Man! Like he knew who the ballot was marked for????????????????????? This was after GA electors had been certified. The DOJ, AG, and GA bureau of investigation and S. of State office had already said were false. Trump had fired Pak and replaced him with Bobby Christine. And ******** Bobby Christine. “He found nothing”. Raffensperger quote. Christine “dismissed that case also”. [******** Carter Jones.] Trump call with Raffensperger. “They dropped a lot of votes in there late at night, you know that, Brad.” Raffensperger specifically rejected that. Raffensperger: “I believe actually in their lawsuits they allege that 10,315 dead ppl. We found 2 dead ppl ....and subsequently we found 2 more.” “The numbers don’t lie. We had many allegations. We investigated every single one of them. In fact, I challenged my team: ‘did we miss anything?’ they said that there was over 66,000 underage voters. We found that there was actually zero. …they said there was 2,423 nonregistered voters. There was zero. They said there was 2,096 felons. We identified less than 74, or LESS that were still in felony sentence every single allegation. We ran down the rabbit trail to make sure that our numbers were accurate.” Nearly 300 investigations of the election. Also Trump retweet of Raffensperger with China face mask ‘they will soon be going to jail.” Trump audio. Call with Raffensperger: “the ballots are corrupt. ...it is more illegal for you than it is for them, b/c you know what they did, and you’re not reporting it. That’s a criminal, that’s a criminal offense. ...that’s a big you to you and to your lawyer, Ryan. That’s a big risk.” Raffensperger: “What I knew was that we didn’t have any votes to find. We had continued to look we had investigated. …there were no votes to find. that was an accurate count that had been certified. And as our general counsel had said, there was no shredding of ballots.” Amazingly, he actually stated, no Raffensperger, no less!, “and the truth, the real truth is I won by 400,000 votes, at least.” Man, he stated that to be a FACT! An exact number!!!

******** David Gergen. Diane Rehm, On My Mind, 13.5.22. ”The R.s have been taking a lot of time arguing, and getting a lot of agreement from their base, that Trump was unfairly treated in the elections. And the Big Lie has taken hold….”

******** Paul Gigot. Opinion Section Editor, the Wall Street Journal. **** JER 16.3.24. “PN, GA, WI and MI, which were all crucial to his 2020 election victory.” No asterisk. Never said that Trump won those states and fraud.

******** Ben Ginsberg. The most prominent Republican lawyer with affiliations too numerous to mention. C-span 13.6.22 hearing. No court found any fraud claim to be credible. “There was never that instance. In all the cases that were brought. And I’ve looked at the more than 60 that included more than 180 counts. And no. the simple fact is that the Trump campaign did not make its case.” “In no instance did the court find that the allegations of fraud were real.” “there hv been post-election reviews in each of the six battleground states that could hv made a difference. And those range from the somewhat farcical Cyber ninjas in AZ …. And in each one of those instances, there was no credible evidence of fraud produced by the Trump campaign or his supporters.” And he is the most prestigious Republican elections lawyer in the nation. Also, “Firing Line”, 2.8.24; “There was no credible evidence of fraud produced by the Trump campaign or his supporters. …I’m 100% certain that it will be fair, accurate and secure.” Also, “Counting the Vote”, PBS Special 27.8.24.

Rudy Giuliani. Damning video, 13.6.22 hearing on Fox. After he had been made chief of dispute: “they saw a big truck bringing in 100,000 ballots, in garbage cans, …and every single one of them was for Biden. B/c they were being notified …that Biden was way behind, and that they better come up with a lot more ballots. And we can prove every single thing I just said.” Remarkable!!!!!

Susan Glasser. The New Yorker. Formerly at Foreign Policy and at The Washington Post and Roll Call and Politico Magazine. Video. Frontline, “Lies, Politics and Democracy”, Season 40, Episode 17, 7.9.22. on Trump’s Chief of Staff: “Mark Meadows was very actively conducting a disinformation campaign. … and he was helping to promote the election lies.”

Eddie Glaude, Princeton professor. “you still have people who believe in the Big Lie.” MORNING JOE, MSNBC 6.7.23.

Elaine Godfrey. The Atlantic. She has a beat on election denial. On her use of language. “I sometimes call them liars. …They are lying or being actively deluded by Trump.” Reliable Sources. 7.8.22.

Jeffrey Goldberg. Editor-in-Chief, the Atlantic. Host of “Washington Week”, PBS. Formerly at The Washington Post, and New York magazine and New York Times Magazine, among other affiliations. ******** The Atlantic. ******** “Washington Week”. Reliable Sources 21.8.22. the media long avoided the word “lie”. At the Atlantic, “We did not use the word ‘lie’ to describe lies for a long time. But now we do. So I think we’re catching up.” Also, Washington Week: “a candidate who has issues with reality, issues with the truth….” 10.11.23.

Jeffrey Goldberg. May, The Atlantic. “Trump …fomented a violent, antidemocratic insurrection meant to overturn the results of a fair election.” 2024. “A Study in Senate Cowardice.”

******** Jonah Goldberg. Founder of The Dispatch. Former editor, National Review, among other affiliations. on Media Buzz, 31.1.21; “ppl from the opinion division [of Fox News network] perpetuate lies about the election being stolen…” also in The Atlantic “lose legitimate elections”. From Morning Joe, MSNBC 21.9.23.

Jonah Goldberg, LA Times “Most elected R.s no longer denounce his election lies and refuse to tell the truth about Biden’s victory”. 12.10.21.

******** Anthony Gonzalez. R.-OH, CNN “Trumping Democracy” 5.11.21. on January 6. “January 6was the line that can’t be crossed. Jan 6 was an unconstitutional attempt led by the President of the United States to overturn an American election and to reinstall himself in power illegitimately. That’s fallen nation territory. That’s third world country territory. My family left Cuba to avoid that fate. I will not let it happen here. …As much as I despise almost every policy of the Biden administration, the country can survive a few years of bad policy. The country can’t survive torching the constitution. That’s the one thing this country can’t survive.”” Also, “This Week”, 7.1.24. did Biden steal the election. “Of course not. ….”

******** Senator Lindsey Graham, R., SC. Press conference. 7.1.21. after Trump incited riot. “Joe Biden is the legitimate pres. …there has been a constant effort by ppl from the president’s legal team to provide misinformation, to distort the facts, to make accusations that cannot be proven …. Hv made accusations w/o sufficient proof. …claimed that 66,000 ...voted under 18. I hv not found one person. They hv claimed that 8,000 felons voted from prison in AZ. I hv asked for a list of names and have received none. …not one judge anywhere in the land accepted any of the accusations to be legitimate, and not one legislative body in the states in question.

Lindsey Graham. ABC This Week, 24.12.23; “I accept the results of the 2020 election.”

******** Lindsey Graham, floor, 6.1.21. from Washington Journal, 7.1.21. “they say there are 66,000 people in GA under 18 voted. How many ppl believe that? I asked: ‘Give me 10.’ Haven’t had one. They said that 8,000 felons in prison voted. Give me 10. I haven’t got one. …It is over.” Says he prayed that Joe Biden would lose. Accepts victory. He is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

******** Charles Grassley. floor 10.5.21; “America’s elections are free and fair; That’s true in …all 50 states. It was true in 2018 and in 2020 and I’m confident it will be true in 2022.” Russia, China try to undermine faith and KGB ‘has been doing it for decades…” Also, “In 2020 …President Biden won that election.” Floor, 18.1.22.

******** former Republican KY Secretary of State and also Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics Trey Grayson. See entry on National Council on Election Integrity; “NCEI members worked to neutralize the false narrative of widespread election fraud in the media, including attempts to question the security of mail ballots that sowed serious doubt in our democratic process. Both before and after Election Day, the council amplified a message aimed at encouraging patience and a peaceful transfer of power regardless of the outcome.”

******** Trey Grayson. R. former Sec. of State. C-span. 1.11.22. “folks who still believe that the 2020 election was stolen, and FALSELY, to be clear…”

******** Mark Green. Republican Congressman. From MORNING JOE, MSNBC, Cheney book. 29.11.23. “the things we do for the Orange Jesus.”

Jeff Greenfield. News Hour, “his baseless claim” 2.1.22.

Christina Greer. Political science professor at Fordham University. “Secretaries of State, ...gubernatorial candidates who believe in the Big Lie….” Morning Joe 30.8.22.

******** Alyssa Farah Griffin. Farah. Former Trump White House Director Of Strategic communications. Reliable Sources 16.1.22. “lying to the public about the fundamentals of our democracy and the fact that we had a legitimate election and Joe Biden legitimately won is beyond destructive to the future of this country.”

Alyssa Farah Griffin, “This Week”, 31.12.23; “we all witnessed him trying to steal a democratic election before and going to historic and unconstitutional lengths to do so. And that just goes to show that he’s willing to basically break every barrier to get into power and to stay in power.”

******** Thomas Griffith. Conservative retired federal judge and an author of the “Lost, not stolen: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election” report by a group of respected conservative authors, which refutes in detail the allegations of fraud by Trump. “60 Minutes”, 15.9.24. “Were the January 6th rioters duped?” “Yes.” “The conclusion of the report was that there’s no evidence that fraud changed the outcome of an election in ANY precinct in the United States of America. And all of the EVIDENCE – not the speculation, not the conspiracy theories – all of the EVIDENCE points in one direction. And that is that President Biden won, and that President Trump lost.”.

******** Stephanie Grisham. At DNC. Former White House Press Secretary for Trump. “He has no fidelity to the truth. …. He used to tell me: “It doesn’t matter what you say, Stephanie. Say it enough, and people will believe you.”20.8.24. c-span.

******** Guadalupe Strategies. ******** Spencer Davis. AEI forum, c-span, 4.11.22. ******** “2,000 Mules.” “I think that there are good takes and good evidence on why something like “2,000 Mules” is not correct. I think there are good takes and good evidence in situations like Maricopa County, which was Sharpies apparently being given out only to conservatives so that those folks wouldn’t be counted.” ******** Maricopa County. Even Sharpies.

Former Rep. Steve Gunderson, (R., WI). See entry on National Council on Election Integrity.

******** Sheryl Guy. Republican elections director, county clerk, Antrim County. ******** Antrim County. ******** Michigan. She voted for Trump. Frontline, plot to overturn the election, 29.3.22. video. “originally the ballot left off a village trustee and we had to add that village trustee to the ballot. …fell into the wrong cell… I owned it within 2 or 3 hours the next morning.” People arrived at small airport in private jet, representing “we have risen” twitter site that has become private. Phil Waldron was director, asserted Dominion fraud. Trump; on Fox Maria; “we had glitches where ...moved thousands of votes…” White House sent this report to DOJ. U of Michigan expert Halderman “frankly, I had never heard of them before ...how many obvious errors and false claims it contains…. “report asserted deliberately rigged, “engineered to enable fraud”. “entirely preposterous”. Antrim didn’t even have the relevant equipment the report said it had. On 6 January. Trump asserted “in one MI county alone, 6,000 votes were switched from Trump to Biden”. Man, that’s rich. He even specifies a number! Doug Clark (verify name) from Pro Publica, on ASOG report: ”what they found was nothing. …a long report which was deeply riddled with errors, which multiple experts would find to be utterly bunk …” “a pillar of the election-fraud myth.” Josh Merritt of ASOG says the largest it evr got in 2019 was 7 employees. ”I ran everything to do with computers in the company”; director of cyber operations. “I’ll always keep saying this: I don’t think it was Dominion’s fault.” Powell cited him as an army intelligence expert, bt never completed intelligence training. Powell: “massive voter fraud..” Waldron: “the voting systems in the US were built to be manipulated…” testify in all swing states. Waldron and Powell refused to talk to Frontline PBS program. Flynn refused to talk also. Patrick Byrne featured Waldron and 3 ANONYMOUS hackers who said Antrim was rigged. Identified themselves as “we are digital hackers…” Flynn and Byrne were the largest funders of the Maricopa audit. Almost no media access. Video of expert on AZ audit is damning. Cyber Ninjas had zero experience in audits. Maricopa itself said nearly every assertion by cyber ninjas had faulty analysis. Logan also refused to go on camera for interview. ******** Bill Gates, lifelong AZ republican, Maricopa chair. ******** Maricopa County. Their 93-page report: “this audit is a sham. ...misinformation, half-truths ...to perpetuate the big lie.” despite guillotine erected in the state capitol. “despicable. ...every elected official in the republican party who remains silent is aiding and abetting this; they all know that this is wrong. They tell me that! But then they remain silent. … That’s the beginning of the end of this democracy.” A.C. Thompson. He produced the Frontline documentary after he crossed the country to investigate.. “the stolen election myth”. Trump: “the evidence of election fraud is so overwhelming…” ******** Pro Publica. ******** Frontline.

******** Alina Habba. ******** Trump’s attorney. From Fox news video, from Morning Joe, MSNBC4.8.23. “Everybody was made aware that he lost the election.”

Maggie Haberman. New York Times. From wj 18.7.24. first few minutes. “spent two months lying about the results of the presidential election”.

Former Senator Chuck Hagel, (R., NE). See entry on National Council on Election Integrity.

******** Nikki Haley. “Who lost the White House? Donald Trump.” From interview, rebroadcast 19.1.24. also, MORNING JOE, MSNBC 1.2.24; “How many times are you going to let him lie to you about things that just aren’t true?” on The Breakfast Club. Video.

Former Rep. Lee Hamilton, (D., IN). See entry on National Council on Election Integrity.

******** Sean Hannity. He testified (to Jan. 6th committee? In court?) that he “never believed” the fraud allegations by Trump. Verify. reported c. 1.1.23.

******** Rick Hanson. [sp? Rick Hasen? Disambiguate] News Hour, 7.10.21. “all of those confirm the results of the election. What happened recently in AZ and what’s happening in other states like WI and PA can’t accurately be called an audit. This is really a public relations attempt to convince millions of ppl that there’s something to worry about in the last election, and I’m much more worried about that for the ramifications of the next election, and for what it’s going to mean to have ppl in power who are supposed to be counting the votes who are parroting the big lie that the election was stolen. Are we really going to be able to trust the results of the election when we had this fake claim of a stolen election last time that could lead to an ACTUAL stolen election the next time.” “Those R. heroes from the last time around, who wd not bend or break the law and overturn the results of the election, many of those ppl are being replaced.” Import full quote. Hice in GA.

******** Victor David Hanson. “I do not think that Trump won the 2020 presidential election. …I voted for Trump …” author of “The Case for Trump”. In Depth, 5.12.21.

Rick Hasen. News Hour, “fraud is quite rare in American elections. …false claims…” 1.6.22.

******** Richard Hasen. election expert. On My Mind, 14.1.22. “we did not see any serious incidents of fraud ….” R.s say voter restriction laws is necessary to restore confidence in accuracy, which is rich because the confidence is being attacked by R.s making unsubstantiated allegations of fraud! Link: elections, accuracy. Also, Book TV, “Cheap Speech”. “perpetuating an incessant lie that the election was stolen”.

John Heileman. MORNING JOE, MSNBC 31.1.24. “the Big Lie about the 2020 election” as an example of absurd conspiracy theories like Pizzagate, Qanon.

Rosalind Helderman. WASHINGTON POST. Trump pressuring his own DOJ “to intervene in an election he lost…” totally unprecedented. News Hour, 18.6.21.

Nia Malika Henderson. Sp? Washington Week PBS, 27.10.23. Mike Johnson “is an election denier”. Same show; Jonah Goldberg. “election deniers”.

******** Eric Herschman. Trump WH lawyer: c-span 13.6.22 hearing: “I thought the Dominion stuff was – I never saw any evidence WHATSOEVER to sustain those allegations.” “What they were proposing, I thought, was nuts. You know, the theory was also completely nuts. It was a combination of the Italians, the Germans, a ton of different things floating around as to who was involved. Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelans, she has an affidavit, something with the software in the Philippines, it was just all over the radar.”

******** Clint Hickman. ******** Maricopa County. ******** Arizona. “60 Minutes”, 7.10.24. Interview with Steve Pelley. He was one of Trump’s most loyal supporters. “Hickman said he saw no evidence of fraud and said so when he voted to certify the election.” He has “lost count” of the death threats against him, “and so have my colleagues, and so have many election workers.” Audio of death threats.

******** The Hill. “unfounded allegations of voter fraud in 2020…” from Washington Journal, 15.5.22.

The Hill. Scott Wong. Washington Journal, 12.5.21. Liz Cheney; “at odds over this question about President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election. President Trump, as you know, has been saying, with no evidence, that this election was stolen ….”

******** Larry Hogan. from Washington Journal3.1.22. “one of the reasons that I continue to speak up and tell the truth about what happened …it’s critically important; frankly it’s crazy that many ppl believe things that simply aren’t true, that they believe a dfferent version of reality. But let’s just face it; there’s been just an amazing amount of disinformation that’s been spread over the past year and there are many people that are believing that disinformation and believing it as if it’s fact.” From SOTU on CNN. Also, at the Reagan presidential Library, 3.5.22. The party “couldn’t even beat Joe Biden. …The truth is, the last election was not rigged. It wasn’t stolen. We simply didn’t offer the majority of voters what they were looking for. January 6th… was an outrageous attack on our democracy, incited by the losing candidate’s inflammatory false rhetoric.” Also, “This Week”, 31.7.22. “After all, he lost to Joe Biden, which is hard to do.”

******** Josh Holmes. Chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Frontline, “Lies, Politics and Democracy”, Season 40, Episode 17, 7.9.22. McConnell “knew that Trump had increasingly been trying to rein in any Republicans that observed reality at this point. And the significance of McConnell saying ‘it’s over’ means that it's over.” Then a furious telephone call with furious cussing by Trump at McConnell. McConnell says almost nothing, then one sentence “The election is over. You lost.” Video. From Bob Costa. ******** Mitch McConnell.

******** Margaret Hoover. ******** Host of Firing Line, PBS. PBS Special, “Counting the Vote”. “Voting experts agree US elections are the most free, fair and secure IN THE WORLD.” (our emphasis). 27.8.24. “concluded –CORRECTLY – that Joe Biden won Arizona.” Even Arizona.

******** Margaret Hoover. “Firing Line”, PBS, 10.12.21. “including Trump’s election frauds lies”. Also, 18.8.23; “Christie broke with Trump over election lies.” Firing Line. Also, 18.11.23: “Trump’s loss in Georgia.” Also, Firing Line. 26.4.24. Maricopa County Recorder. ******** Arizona. “election official fighting lies.” ******** Stephen Richer: “I doubt that anyone in the country has looked at the 2020 election in AZ more than I have, and it checks out. 100%.” Import text. X

Steny Hoyer. Floor, 12.8.22. “…a former president who supports lying.” Rebroadcast, c-span, 13.8.22.

******** Will Hurd. CNN, 9 am hour, 16.8.23. quote from a graphic. “News Central.”

******** Will Hurd. c-span, 3.12.20. Krebs, instead of being fired, should hv been thanked for being responsible for one of the most secure elections we’ve ever had. There’s no evidence to suggest otherwise.” “I think that Chris Krebs did an amazing job…” also, News Hour 7.4.22; “Joe Biden won the election. Period. Full stop. It was lost by Donald Trump. And it was lost by Donald Trump b/c he was incapable of growing the R. party to different groups.” ******** Chris Krebs.

******** Asa Hutchinson. On 3.7.22 on CBS. On CBS Mornings. From Morning Joe. 4.7.22. “subsequent to the elections, where he was questioning the legality of it, with the lawful transfer of party, yes, that was a threat to our democracy. That was a threat to our institutions of government …. During that time, he was a risk to the nation. Absolutely.”

******** Cassidy Hutchinson. Import testimony “all because of a lie”. C-span.

Fred Hiatt. Washington Post. Washington Post 14.6.21. “allow Donald Trump to succeed ..where Trump ..failed in 2020: to steal an election that he lost.” “his lie of having won.”

David Ignatius. Very long time foreign affairs columnist and political analyst at The Washington Post. 16.12.21 WASHINGTON POST live. C-span. Introducing Chris Krebs: “Chris, let me lead off with you; you got sacked last year in the last months of the Trump administration, basically for trying to protect our elections and speaking out clearly and directly about …” ******** Chris Krebs. Also, Morning Joe, 3.11.22, “The Big Lie has been tested in every court, in every recount, every possible test of whether this Big Lie has any factual basis has been made, and there IS no basis.”

******** Inside Elections. ******** Jacob Rubashkin. Washington Journal, 2.5.22. “the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.” And this is a publication exclusively committed to expertise on election investigation.

Walter Isaacson. Amanpour, 14.10.21. “insisted he won ...which is, of course, incorrect.”

Hakeem Jeffries. House Democratic leader. 19.4.22. “perpetrated the Big Lie that Joe Biden was not elected”. C-span event.

******** Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. He was asked in a nationwide newscast on “This Week” on ABC pointblank by George Stephanopoulos: “Can you say unequivocally that Joe Biden won the 2020 election and Donald Trump lost?” But Johnson POINTEDLY REFUSED to assert that the election was “rigged” by “massive fraud”, as Trump claims: “See? This is the game that is always played by mainstream media with leading Republicans. It’s a gotcha game. You want us to re-litigate the past…” He REFUSED to say that the election outcome was determined by fraud.

******** Ron Johnson. Video. Johnson emphasized on captured video that Trump lost because there were so many under-votes. Republicans across the state won by 50,000 or 55,000 more votes than Trump got. Even Republicans who lost their district also got the same proportion more votes than Trump did in those districts.

Elise Jordan. From Morning Joe, 21.10.22. import text. Republican official in the past?

Elise Jordan. “spewing election lies”… MORNING JOE, MSNBC 20.6.23.

******** Jim Jordan. Republican member of Congress, Ohio. ******** 60 Minutes, 24.3.24. “What about people saying they have concerns that the 2020 election was stolen?” “….I’ve not said that.” “Most people don’t question the result.” … “Fair enough.” Import extended video.

Judge. Dominion Voting Machines. Dominion lawsuit ruling: “There is no genuine issue of material fact as to falsity…. CRYSTAL clear ..none of the statements relating to Dominion ..are true.” 31.3.23. from Media Buzz, 2.4.23.

Senator Tim Kaine, Virginia. News Hour, 20.10.21. “this effort to disenfranchise people based on this big lie of well, it was rigged, it was stolen, there’s voter fraud. All of those things President Trump said were lies, but they were repeated ad nauseum… and they’re taking away people’s right to vote.” Also, “lies, …meritless claims” floor, 7.1.22.

Zolan Kanno-Youngs. New York Times. WH correspondent. Washington Week. PBS, 16.9.22. “we are having candidates who are outright DENYING the results of the previous election.”

Sahil Kapur. Bloomberg Politics. “insistence that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, which is false.” The guy now has a key role at RNC. Morning Joe, MSNBC, 7.6.24.

Jonathan Karl. Face the Nation, “Trump’s truth-free claim that the election was stolen. That lie became urgent…” 12.6.22. also, Morning Joe, MSNBC, 14.11.23. “after Trump lost in 2020 …”

******** John Katko. Republican Congress Representative. “deliberately promoted baseless theories, creating ...misinformation and division.” From impeachment trial, 11.2.21. from floor 6.1.21?

******** John Katko; “He deliberately promoted baseless theories promoting …misinformation…” floor. Rebroadcast during impeachment trial. 11.2.21.

Katty Kay. ******** the BBC. From Morning Joe”, 4.10.22. “Herschel Walker …is prepared to support Trump on the single biggest issue that matters to Donald Trump and to Donald Trump’s supporters increasingly, which is around the lie around the 2020 election.”

Tamara Keith. PBS News Hour. PBS. White House Correspondent. 10.5.21. “if Republicans, whether they agree with the big lie or not, ... and not talk about what happened on Jan. 6…. “

******** Gen. John Kelly. interview CNN, from Washington Journal, 8.1.21. “behavior ...in the weeks and months before that have jst been outrageous …poisoning the minds of people with the lies and the frauds….” Wd vote to remove from office with 25th amendment.

******** Brian Kemp. IN response to a Trump claim that he wd hv a “major” news conference to demonstrate how GA election was stolen, 16.8.23, years after the election, Kemp posted on Truth Social “The 2020nelection in GA was not stolen. For nearly 3y now, anyone w/ evidence of fraud has failed to come forward – under oath – and prove anything in a court of law. Our elections in GA are secure ..fair and will continue …” From MORNING JOE, MSNBC.

Jimmy Kimmel. 21.11.21. “the election he can’t admit he lost.”

******** Bernie Kerrick. Import quote.

******** Brian Kilmeade. Long-time host on The Fox News Network. Media Buzz, 26.6.22. “all those Republicans were telling us the inside story we kind of knew about. …tht he’d been cheated in GA, we heard about AZ; we heard about all the problems in WI, bt we never saw any proof of it.”

Brian Kilmeade. Fox News. “Media Buzz.” 2.10.22. “You only see the time that Trump was unhinged, and he was irate. but there were other times, in other books that were anti-Trump, that talked about him being resigned and understanding that he lost the election. Having said that, is that even part of this narrative of January 6th?” import full video.

Seung Min Kim, CNN noon show, 15.8.23. Asked to be clear, was there any fraud in GA? “Absolutely not.”

Senator Angus King, I-ME. Floor, 19.10.21. “repeating a lie doesn’t make it true. every objective study to try to detect widespread voter fraud in this country has failed to produce credible evidence of anything but scattered and vanishingly rare cases. …even the overtly partisan, so-called audit of the votes in Maricopa country, AZ failed to find what they were so desperately looking for. …” good extended quote. Trump’s commission to find fraud was disbanded after finding with no published finding of fraud, even though finding fraud was their MISSION.

Adam Kinzinger. This Week 31.10.21. “you can in the House as hard as you can fight to try to tell the truth. You can fight against the cancer in the R. party of lies of conspiracy of dishonesty. And …basically ...a few others that are telling the truth and there are about 190 ppl in the R. party that aren’t going to tell the truth. …”

Adam Kinzinger. 12.5.21. Washington Journal, live, Adam Kinzinger, after meeting to take leadership seat away from Cheney. “The truth is that the election was not stolen. … the truth is that the election was not stolen. …win the next election instead of continuing the big lie.” “and by the way, to our base voters who believe the election was stolen, honestly I don’t blame them b/c their leaders hv told them the exact same thing. That’s why it’s important for ppl to tell the truth.”

******** retired Admiral John Kirby. “Morning Joe”. 1.11.22. “one of the most wonderful things about being an American citizen is that we elect our leaders. WE …should be proud, and confident, in the process by which our representatives are put into that office ….” Good extended quote.

******** Chris Krebs. Trump Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. E.g., CNN special report, “assault on democracy,” 20.6.20. congressional testimony: “This was a secure election. Of that I hv no doubt.”

******** Chris Krebs. “Let me put it this way: it was the most litigated, it was the most scrutinized, it was the most audited; this election was put through the ringer from so many different directions. And I say, don’t take it from me. Take it from Bill Barr; at the time he was the Attorney General of the United States.” 60 Minutes. 23.10.22.

******** Chris Krebs. “the president …he’s continuing the long con and the grift…” Reliable Sources, 17.1.21.

Chris Krebs. 16.12.21 WASHINGTON POST live, c-span. “The unfortunate reality is that we’re probably backsliding from an elections administration perspective, and it’s not due to the professional elections officials, the real heroes of the 2020 election. It’s political interference at the state level in federal elections, specifically, you look at AZ, you look at GA; you look at a few of the other states that were pivotal in the the 2020 election …. You’re seeing political operatives, hacks, that have no elections experience, and instead bend the knee to the former president, that are looking to take over secretary of State roles, Mark Finch in AZ and Jody Hice in GA; they’re running for those roles. I hv serious concerns that if they’re in … that we may not have the Brad Raffenspergers and Katie Hobbs that actually upheld their constitutional duties ... a different outcome with, once again, interference at the state level.” “it’s not just Democrats. Look at Ben Ginsberg, an elections lawyer, wrote an op-ed in the WASHINGTON POST …” Update the Electoral Count Act…. Solutions.

******** Howie Kurtz. Long time host of Media Buzz, The Fox New Network media analysis program. Formerly media analyst at The Washington Post, and also for The New Republic, The Washington Monthly and New York magazine. Media Buzz. Fox News Network. 9.5.21. “while Trump’s claims of widespread fraud remain unproven, this has become a litmus test within the party…” Giuliani “going back to saying they were passing ballots, and there’s NO evidence of this.” Media Buzz, 17.12.23. GA election workers.

******** Howie Kurtz. on “MediaBuzz”, 21.2.21, Fox News Network, admits that “I agree that the former president should be challenged if he talks about a stolen election….”

Howie Kurtz, “Media Buzz”, 31.10.21. Wall Street Journal ran 700 word letter from Trump “filled of unproven claims about how the PA election was rigged, such as suggesting that over 70,000 late ballots were counted when they weren’t.”

Howie Kurtz. Media Buzz, 23.4.23. even years later, “Donald Trump insisted, and continues to say, without proof, almost 2 ½ years later, that the election was rigged against him.”

Former Senator Mary Landrieu, (D., LA). See entry on National Council on Election Integrity.

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. Ezra Rosenberg. Voting rights co-director. Hearing, 20.1.22. “when there is no evidence of fraud.”

Jonathan Lemire. Politico. White House Bureau Chief. Way Too Early. Trump at CPAC: “as usual, used his speech to spread lies about the 2020 election and false claims about rampant voter fraud.” 8.8.22. DC editor, Politico. Verify affiliation. Also, Mastriano “has continued to push the Big Lie”. Way Too Early 10.8.22.

David Leonhardt. New York Times. “blatantly false statements claiming that Biden did not really win the 2020 election.” 13 December 2021. Citation. The slow steal.

******** Yuval Levin. Founding Editor of National Affairs. American Enterprise Institute. Contributor to National Review. C-span, air 6.3.23. “Realignment” podcast. 25.1.23 recording. “There is much, much less fraud in our elections than there has been at almost any time you could have looked in on them in the history of the United States.”

Mara Liasson. NPR. Media Buzz, 9.5.21; “he wants to perpetuate what I believe is a lie, false, that he actually won the 2020 election, sometimes he says in a landslide.”

Mara Liasson. NPR. From Media Buzz, 10 Oct., 21. “the new litmus test for being loyal to Donald Trump is agreeing with this lie that the election was stolen from him … that Nov. third was the real insurrection. Everyone has to agree w/ that if they’re going to have a future in the R. party.”

******** Sarah Longwell. “What about Josh Hawley; what about Ted Cruz, what about Kevin McCarthy, what about Madison Cawthorne (spelling?) and Paul Gosar, Louie Gomert and all the Republicans who fed those voters lies… They amplified his [Trump’s] lie and told them that the election was stolen…? [re the insurrectionists]. Washington Journal16.2.21. also, Reliable Sources, 24.7.22. “a set of very scary …stop the steal candidates…”

Laura Barone Lopez. PBS NewsHour. Washington This Week, “Trump continues to lie about the 2020 election…” 5.1.23. import extended quotes.

The “Lost, not stolen: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election” report by a group of respected conservative authors” report refutes Trump allegations in detail. Written by a group of conservative authors.

******** Frank Luntz. On Media Buzz, 19.6.22. Kurtz: “what about the fact that you don’t have Republicans coming out and saying, “yeah”, except for some candidates, “that the election was rigged; Donald Trump was right?” Luntz: “bc DT is still the most popular person within the R. party. When he endorses, it’s still worth a 5 or 10% bounce.” Also, wj, 30.7.23, “would not accept that he lost ….but he did….”

******** Frank Luntz. Republican strategist and pollster. Morning Joe. 3.10.22. “I beg you all; don’t turn this into a partisan issue. Republicans who keep saying that there’s election fraud – there’s tiny evidence, and nothing substantial about election fraud across the country.” Also, “Morning Joe”, 21.10.22. “and I think that what the former president has done is so destructive to democracy. And I see what the damage is. I see it in my focus groups. ...where people talk to each other, they can’t hear each other, they don’t want to listen. And most importantly, they don’t want to learn.”

******** Judge Michael Luttig. “in fact, he lost that election, fair and square, in what we now know was perhaps the fairest election in American history.” “Deadline: White House”, msnbc, 5pm 22.8.23. J. Michael Luttig. Import text from Velshi, 1.4.23.

******** Derke Lyons. Counselor to the president. 13.6.22 public hearing, c-span. “Eric and Pat told that group, the president included, that none of those things had been substantiated to the extent that …challenge the election.”

******** Martha MacCallum. Long-time reporter and host of The Fox News Network. On Fox News Network. During a break in the hearings of the Jan 6 committee, 21.6.22. focus on Trump pressure on state legislatures to reject the certified electors and appoint Trump electors instead. “it is very compelling. And the lack of evidence is the huge, stunning, clear moment here where these ppl are saying here: ‘look, I’ve supported you. Please give me something to work with.’ And it simply doesn’t materialize.”

******** Martha MacCallum. break in the January 6 committee hearings. 28.6.22. “The problem was that they couldn’t back it up with anything in the courts, and they couldn’t back it up with evidence that they produced.”

Bill Maher. “Real Time with Bill Maher”, HBO. 12.8.22. from Morning Joe, 15.8.22. “The Big Lie was finally losing momentum.”

Bill Maher. “Some politicians have done worse things, like trying to overthrow the government of the United States.” Real Time, CNN 28.9.24.

******** Joe Manchin. SOTU 1.8.21. in a democracy everyone needs to be able to accept the fair election. Good full quote. ”Under P. Trump we have NOT seen an orderly transfer. We have not seen basically an acceptance of the will of the ppl. And that has made it very difficult. So we hv 41m ppl still believing that Joe Biden is maybe not duly elected, which he absolutely is, and it was absolutely done in a very fair, and a very, very secure manner, system.” Also, “You have to believe the facts and accept them.” Good extended quote, c-span 18.7.23 at No Labels even.

******** Joe Manchin. SOTU, 21.7.24. “President Trump has not acknowledged that the insurrection was real, that they tried to overthrow our govt. That was real. He didn’t accept the orderly transfer of power, and there has bn more recounts than we’ve ever done in any other election, knowing that was valid. He’s still attacking the rule of law and the judicial system.”

******** Maricopa Country. ******** Maricopa County Republicans! Scott Prescott and Stephen Richer; made a ‘mockery’ out of the audit process. From Washington Journal 19.5.21. also Republican chairman of this board “this sham process” Jack Sellers. From Tucson News? ******** Arizona. ******** Maricopa. ******** Maricopa County.

******** Maricopa County. January 2022 report by Maricopa County Elections Dept. report: “Correcting the Record: Maricopa County’s In-Depth Analysis of the Senate Inquiry”.

******** Maricopa County. ******** Bill Gates. Republican supervisor. “the biggest threat to our democracy in my lifetime”. Opening statement, Carolyn Maloney, c-span hearing on death threats, 11.8.22.

Maricopa County. bill gates. The audits prove that the votes are counted accurately, in AZ and nationally. Counted by professionals, not partisan groups like Cyber Ninjas. “I support audits, but not audits with preconceived notions that are done by people that have a certain political perspective and are done by people who are not professionals.” At CEIR, 8.5.23.

******** Jeff Mason. White House Reporter. Reuters. This Week pbs, 29.3.24. need better quote. Also, Adam Harris. The Atlantic. Need better quote.

Chris Matthews. Chris Mathews. MORNING JOE, MSNBC 20.3.23. “He clearly lost the election. … There’s no doubt about it. It was over. They know he lost. Everybody thinking about it knows he lost the election.” Import full quote. Also, MORNING JOE, MSNBC 16.8.23.

******** Sarah Matthews. Deputy press Secretary in the Trump White House. Testimony to January 6th committee. 21.7.22. on his 4:17pm video: “I was struck by the fact that he chose to begin the video by pushing the lie that there was a stolen election.” “He told the people he had just watched storm our nation’s Capitol with the intent of overthrowing our democracy, violently attack police officers and chant heinous things like “Hang Mike Pence” …. I knew I would be resigning that evening…..”

******** Andy McCarthy. Legal analyst for The Fox News Network. On The Fox News Network. Live, 12:54pm after hearing on January 6. Panel “what they’re trying to emphasize obviously is ...that Trump must hv known that there was nothing to this b/c everybody around him who was credible was telling him it was nonsense, and there was nothing there. As I’ve said from the beginning, they’ve got a very good story to tell.” Then criticized the process. No counter-argument. We agree totally.

******** Andy McCarthy. Fox News. 28.6.22. on Cassidy Hutchinson testimony on January 6. “This evidence should hv been in front ot the Senate. These charges should hv been in the articles of impeachment” back in January of 2021. …they’re building a very strong case. ...and I continue to think the important testimony that came out today was just how much President Trump had about how armed to the teeth this crowd was, and his reaction that “well, what’s the problem with that? They’re not coming for me; I’m not the one who’s threatened by all this.” Good extended quote. “…powerful testimony.”

******** Kevin McCarthy. ******** Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives. Video. 9.6.22. asked by Jonathan Karl at least three times whether the 2020 United States presidential election was fraudulent, he never even suggested that it was. If the election of the president of the United States is fraudulent, the speaker of the House of Representatives would obviously never turn down a chance to vociferously and VEHEMENTLY, at every turn to vent outrage that the presidential election was stolen. **********

Former United States Senator Claire McCaskill. Video from “The War Room”, rebroadcast MSNBC with Nicolle Wallace; “This has become a huge thing, with NO EVIENCE. There is NO EVIDENCE that there was fraud in the election. If there was evidence, they wouldn’t have lost every single court case. There was plenty of audits; there was plenty of review. …in America, if you’re going to accuse someone of a crime, there must be evidence. But these guys don’t need evidence.” 16.10.22. from “The Best of War Room.” AMVO. Real America’s Voice.

******** Mitch McConnell. Republican Senate Leader. Senate floor, day after Trump incited riot. 6.1.21. “I’ve served 36y in the Senate. This is the most important vote I have ever cast” on electoral college certification. “sweeping conspiracy theories …over and over the courts hv rejected these claims, including judges the president himself has nominated. …none before us proves illegality anywhere near the massive scale, anywhere near the massive scale that would have tilted the election. ...the doubt itself was incited w/o any evidence. …the voters and the courts and the states have all spoken. They have all spoken. ...This election was actually not even close. ...just in recent history, 1976, 2000 and 2004 were all closer than this one. The electoral college result was almost identical to what it was in 2016. …”.

******** Mitch McConnell. Meet the Press, 28.4.24. HE re-iterates explicitly four years later that he still stands by his exact remarks made on the night of Jan. 6 2020. E.g., “morally responsible” for the coup.

******** Mitch McConnell, floor, 19.1.21, final day of Trump presidency: “the mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president…” riot incitement.

******** Mitch McConnell. Even the Senate Republican leader, as late as 2022, has the guts to say: Washington Journal 9.2.22: “well let me give you my view of what happened on January 6th. It was a violent insurrection, for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power, after a legitimately certified election.”

********************* Mitch McConnell, IMMEDIATELY after the impeachment vote, 13.2.21. “chanted about murdering the vice president” at insurrection. “b/c they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on earth b/c he was mad that he had lost the election. …crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories and reckless hyperbole ...shouting into the largest megaphone on the planet earth. …the entire manufactured atmosphere of looming catastrophe. The increasingly wild myths, myths about a reversed landslide election that was somehow being stolen, some secret coup by our now president. …the legal system spoke, the electoral college spoke. As I said at the time, the election was settled, it was over. …opened a new chapter of even wilder, wilder claims. ...thundering that shadowy forces are stealing our country, and then feign surprise when people believe him and do reckless things. …seemed determined to either overturn the voters’ decision or else torch our institutions on the way out. The unconscionable behavior did not end when the violence began. …he was watching the same live television as the rest of us. A mob was assaulting the Capitol in HIS name. these criminals were carrying his banners, hanging his flags, and screaming their loyalty to him. It was obvious that only president trump could end this; he was the only one who cd. ...begged him to do so. ...allies frantically called him to do so. The p. did not do so, he did not do his job …so that the law could be faithfully executed and order restored. No. instead, ...watched television happily, happily as the chaos unfolded. ...to overturn the election. …the mob carrying trump banners was beating the cops and breaching perimeters, the p. send a further tweet attack his own VP. …mob seemed to interpret this as a further inspiration to lawlessness and violence not surprisingly. …half-heartedly calling for peace. He dd not call immediately for the violence to end. He did not tell the mob to depart until even later. …police bleeding, he kept repeating election lies and praising the criminals. …one person did. One.” Also, “the mob was fed lies. …”

******** Dave McCormick. Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, from Pennsylvania. “Inside Politics with Manu Raju.” 8 Sept. 2024. “I don’t agree with Trump that the 2020 election was stolen.”

******** Michael McDonald. University of Florida professor. Elections expert. Washington Journal, C-SPAN. 7.10.22. definitive. Import full text. “Trump had allies ….. they were very isolated. There was no widespread fraud in the election. And Trump and his allies have yet to produce any evidence that there was any fraud in the election that was widespread.” 2016i and 2020 “were both free and fair.” Exhaustive statement. ****

******** Ronna MacDaniel. Chair of the Republican National Committee. 2017-2024. “He won the election. Fair and square. He won. … …does not mean he’s not the legitimate president.” Meet the Press, from Morning Joe, MSNBC 25.3.24.

******** General H. R. McMaster. National Security Advisor to President Trump. on SOTU, 17.1.21. attack on the capital provoked by Trump “assault on the Capitol, but foremost among them was the president’s …sustained disinformation …denying the results of the election, spreading these unfounded conspiracy theories and claims of widespread corruption ….”

******** Mark Meadows. Ashley Parker. Senior N. political correspondent for Washington Post. Morning Joe 14.10.22. “it was premeditated. …Trump at the time ...was told repeatedly by a number of his aides, by his own Justice Dept., by his own top advisors, by his own family, that he lost. And not only was he told this, but privately he seemed to UNDDERSTAND this. He told Mark Meadows, several times Mark Meadows told an aide, “Look. I know I lost, but it’s embarrassing so I want to fight it anyhow.’”

******** Mediaite. “in pushing the reckless lie that the 2020 election was fraudulent. … That belief is wrong. It is clearly false. Attempts to prove it have been shot down in court and sane leaders in the Republican Party have refused to embrace it.” 11.1.21. of course, Fox News called the election, and never revoked that finding. Fox news. “claims thoroughly debunked a few hours later by news anchor Eric Shawn.” Eric Shon. Sp?

Seth Meyers. late night, “the big lie that DT was the real winner of the 2020 election…” 19.3.21.

******** Michigan. Republican-led committee wrote: DN 25.6.21, “no evidence of widespread or systematic fraud in the 2020 election”. Definitive. Dead ppl, machine hacking, and illegal votes is all lies. ******** Michigan.

******** Michigan. Republican led committee “This committee found no evidence of widespread or systematic fraud in Michigan’s prosecution of the 2020 election.” Special night-time broadcast of Morning Joe. “2022 Midterms”. 6.11.22. verify.

******** Michigan. ****************** not a SINGLE senator voted to challenge the Michigan count? Verify.

******** Michigan. Citation. Washington Post 6.8.23. “MI Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey and House Speaker Lee Chatfield …met with Trump in the Oval Office on Nov. 20,2020 ..false claims ..in Detroit. …joint statement …not yet been made aware of any information that wd change the outcome’ …in the state.” Continuing pressure to reverse. “We have not received evidence of fraud on a scale that would change the outcome …Shirkey …Dec. 14 statement. Chatfield echoed …’I can’t fathom risking our ..institutions …resolution ..changing the electors …”

******** Tim Miller. The Bulwark. Jeb Bush campaign official. “candidates like the ones I used to vote for, who believe, for example,

that Joe Biden is the legitimate president…” “All In”, 10.5.22.

Tim Miller. Way Too Early, 8.8.22. “the fealty to the Big Lie and to the election hysteria has to be the number one takeaway from” CPAC.

General Mark Milley. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Get quote example.

Morning Joe. 23.6.22. Willie Geist. “tried to get the Dept of Justice to help him overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. ...when acting AG Jeffrey Rosen resisted Trump’s pressure, the former president came close to replacing him with a mid-level DOJ environmental lawyer named Jeffrey Clark, who had repeatedly pushed to help advance that Big Lie.”

******** the Milwaukee Journal. ******** Wisconsin. From Washington Journal, 26 August, 2024. “claimed without evidence that the boxes and absentee voting were rife with fraud.”c-span.

Former Rep. Susan Molinari, (R., NY). See entry on National Council on Election Integrity.

Former Rep. Connie Morella, (R., MD). See entry on National Council on Election Integrity.

******** Matt Morgan. Trump General Counsel, Trump campaign. C-span 13.6.22. hearings.: “whether the fraud, maladministration, abuse or irregularities if aggregated AND READ MOST FAVORABLY TO THE CAMPAIGN, wd that be outcome-determinant. And I think everyone’s assessment in the room at least among the staff, …myself and Greg Jacob, was that it was not sufficient to be outcome-determinant.” “the general consensus was that the law firms were not comfortable making the arguments that Rudy Giuliani was making publicly. I seem to recall that I had a similar conversation with most all of them.”

******** Piers Morgan. Fox News Network. from Media Buzz, 24.4.22. “It was a free and fair election; you lost”. “As a journalist, I’ve read everything. And I’ve not seen the hard evidence that you keep on saying exists to prove that election was rigged or stolen from you. And until I do….”

Former Senator Carol Moesely Braun. See entry on National Council on Election Integrity.

******** Michael Mukasey. Attorney General. George W. Bush Administration. Journal Editorial Report. Fox News Network. 16.1.21. “I think that the president’s behavior constituted an impeachable offense, including all the misrepresentations of law and fact he made about the election, about the defects in the election that he says could hv changed the outcome….”

******** Mick Mulvaney. President Trump Chief of Staff. Also, President Trump Director of Management and Budget. **** Media Buzz, 3.7.22. on Cassidy Hutchinson. Kurtz: “said he knows her, and he believes her. And that Donald Trump should be the nominee.” Also, Guy Benson. Response. “And he’s not the only one. There are other White House alumni from the Trump administration, who are out on social media, defending Hutchinson, and her credibility and her character.”

******** Mick Mulvaney. Former Trump chief of staff. ********** Said that Trump admitted to him that he had lost Arizona. ******** Arizona. E.g., Morning Joe, 2.1.23. p. “so what you guys are telling me is that you’ve got nothing.” 56 of the transcript.

******** Rupert Murdoch. Owner and CEO of Fox News Network. **** Washington Post 18.2.23. “As Trump refused to let up on his ..fraud claims, Murdoch suggested that Fox might ..push back. In early January 2021, ..message to Scott that their three BIGGGEST prime-time stars –TC, SH and LI – ‘should independently or together say something like ‘the election is over and Joe Biden won.’” Murdoch ..suggestion …’wd go a long way to stop the Trump MYTH that the election [was] stolen.’” “ some of the emphasis is ours. Import full verbatim. Those are Murdoch’s OWN words before he chickened out b/c he was worried that the whacko right broadcasters would gain market share during the Trump Lie movement.

******** The National Academy of Sciences. Washington Post 6.11.22. “PNAS …NAS …in 2021 debunked every one of these statistical claims. …either not a fact or not anomalous.’ Wrote Justin Grimmer …Standford …Hoover Institution. …Andrew Eggers …U. lf Chicago and Haritz Garro of Stanford.”

National Council on Election Integrity. “NCEI members worked to neutralize the false narrative of widespread election fraud in the media, including attempts to question the security of mail ballots that sowed serious doubt in our democratic process. Both before and after Election Day, the council amplified a message aimed at encouraging patience and a peaceful transfer of power regardless of the outcome.” Members include Representative Rep. Charles Boustany (R., LA), former Chair of the Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright, Michael Chertoff, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security in the George W. Bush administration, Former Senator Dan Coats (R., IN) also Trump’s Director of Nation Intelligence, Barbara Comstock (R-VA), General James Comstock, former Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R., FL), former Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) also former Senate Majority Leader, former Senator Russ Feingold (D., WI), Trey Grayson, former KY Secretary of State and also director of the Harvard Institute of Politics, former Rep. Steve Gunderson (R., WI) , former Senator Chuck Hagel (R., NE) and former Secretary of Defense, former Rep. Lee Hamilton (D., IN), Bill Haslam, former Republican Governor of Tennessee, former Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R., AK), former Senator Mary Landrieu (D. LA), former Rep. Susan Molinari (R., NY), former Rep. Connie Morella (R., MD), former Senator Carol Mosely Braun (D., IL), Ret. Admiral Bill Owens, former Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, former Rep. Deborah Pryce, (R., OH) and also the chair of the House Republican Conference. Former Rep. Reid Ribble (R., WI), Sec. Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, the founding Secretary of Homeland Security in the George W. Bush Administration, Retired Admiral Mike Rogers (R., MI), former Commander of Cyber Command and Director of the National Security Agency, former Rep. Mike Rogers, R, MI), who was chair of the Intelligence Committee and is the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. Michael Steele, former chair of the RNC, Representative Zach Wamp (R-TN), former Senator Tim Wirth (D., CO).

******** The National Journal. Washington Journal, 10.2.21. “unsubstantiated” assertions by Trump on election. Zach Cohen.

******** The National Review. ******** National Review. editorial statement: from Washington Journal 6.5.21. “These statements are divisive and false.”

******** NewsMax. Morning Joe, MSNBC 26.6.24. “Newsmax had to run a disclaimer saying they accepted the results of the 2020 election, ….b/c they didn’t want to get sued…” Jonathan Lemire. Chyron at bottom of the screen: “Please Note: Newsmax accepts the 2020 election results as legal and final”

Newshour. Newshour. Amna Nawaz. 13.11.23. “it’s bn 3y since he lost that 2020 contest.” Recent polls in August, “69% of R.s and R. leaning voters say that Mr. Biden’s win was not legitimate.”

Newshour. PBS Newshour. Geoff Bennett. “the big lie that the election was stolen.”

PBS Newshour. “not accept as legitimate, as we know, the election of Joe Biden”. 23.9.22. Lisa Desjardins. “the fraudulent idea that there were problems with that election..” also, NH 4.12.23; “trump continues to spout the lie that he won the 2020 election.”

The PBS Newshour. Routinely states Trump’s assertions are false; e.g. 18.8.21, Woodruff; “Trump has falsely claimed that fraud led to his narrow loss in Georgia.”

PBS Newshour. Amna Navaz. 25.10.21. “that lie about election fraud in 2020…” also 23.11.21 on Amanpour “the big lie”.

******** The New York Post. front page banner headline: “Mr. President …STOP THE INSANITY. You lost the election. You’re cheering for an undemoc4atic coup.” Owned by Rupert Murdoch. From Media Buzz, 3.1.21.

New York Supreme Court. Revoked Guiliani’s law license. “communicated demonstrably false and misleading statements to courts, lawmakers and the public at large in his capacity as lawyer for former president Donald J. Trump and the Trump campaign ...failed effort at reelection in 2020.” From c-span 9.6.22. January 6 commission hearing.

The New York Times. News article, from 12.12.21 Washington Journal. “Trump’s false claim of a stolen election in 2020..” Now believers in this lie are winning offices that determine elector counting decisions. 60% of R.s believe the election was stolen.

New York Times. News article. “…a wave of lawsuits and partisan audits in closely contested states, none of which turned up evidence of more than EXTRMELY isolated instances of fraud.” 11.12.21. now the slow steal. “to give partisan actors more direct control over election systems.” “painted ...secretaries of state as supervillains..” Raffensperger ...”death threats ...”

******** No Labels. From “Common Sense” 2023 report; “Skepticism of election integrity is more prevalent among Republicans, who think the 2020 presidential election was stolen (it wasn’t, according to over 60 court cases—many overseen by judges appointed by

former president Trump, that rejected the Trump campaign’s stolen election charges after the 2020 elections)….”

******** Peggy Noonan. From Wall Street Journal. From Washington Journal 21.5.22. “Mr. Trump targeted GA Governor Brian Kemp for reasons of personal spleen. Mr. Kemp refused to bend to the then-president’s pressure to falsify state results of the 2020 election….”

******** President Barack Obama. Phoenix speech. Rebroadcast, “Morning Joe”, 3.11.22. “claiming, without any evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen.”

******** Jane O’Brien. BBC World News America. BBC. BBC World News. BBC. 3.11.22. “as some Republican candidates continue to deny the results of the 2020 election, which Donald Trump lost.”

Kelly O’Donnell. At CPAC, Trump “again made false claims about the 2020 election…” Morning Joe, 8.8.22.

******** Henry Olsen. *********** Ethics and Policy Research Center. Washington Journal, 2.3.21. “he …castigated the Supreme Court for not his bogus appeals that lacked legal merit. “…the fact is the election was not stolen…” Washington Journal 9.11.21 also: “the wrongful allegation of the alleged theft of the election…”

******** Henry Olsen. Washington Journal, 16.5.21. “Trump’s lies about the stealing of the election. The election was not stolen; he lost.” Also, we need the full quote from Washington Journal, c. 21.5.22. “Every time I got an allegation, I drilled down on it and there was never any proof to any of it.” Get verbatim. Also, 14.5.23 wj; “remains in denial about what really happened in the 2020 election…”

******** Ted Olson. Former solicitor general of the United States, George W. Bush administration. Author of the “Lost not Stoen” report.

******** OAN. One America News. Media Buzz, 15.5.22. “One America News backed off of allegations of widespread fraud in Georgia, …two election workers who the network accused of using suitcases to cast illegal ballots. OAN said GA officials found no fraud.” Video. OAN report: “The results of this investigation indicate that Ruby Freeman and Juandria Shane Moss did not engage in ballot fraud or criminal misconduct.” Reached settlement. 9.5.22 video report.

President Barack Obama. ******** George W. Bush. Jimmy Carter. Barack Obama. Bill Clinton, New York Times 5.1.22. “All four of us former presidents ...affirmed the legitimacy of the 2020 election.”

Norm Ornstein. “On My Mind”, 15.10.21. on stage with Trump “as he spouted his pathetic lies about the election being stolen ….

From Senator Jon Ossof, Georgia. hearing, 20.4.21. quote of GA Republican LT. Governor Jeff Duncan about new GA law; “this is really the fallout of 10w of misinformation that flew in from former president D. Trump. … this is solutions in search of a problem.” ******** Jeff Duncan. ******** Georgia.

See entry on National Council on Election Integrity.

Ret. Admiral Bill Owens, Vice Chair of the Chiefs of Staff. See entry on National Council on Election Integrity.

Julie Pace. “This Week”, 10.10.21. “as he continues to peddle this false information, lies about what happened in the election. They continue to stand with him because they know …” “that part of the party mobilized …believing in an event that didn’t happen; that election was free and fair and Joe Biden won.”

Tara Palmeri. Reliable Sources, CNN, 31.7.22. “what happens when they perpetuate some of these election lies.” Puck. Former Politico. ??

Leon Panetta. Former member of Congress, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, former Secretary of Defense. News Hour, 15.7.21. Trump “ws clear that he was going to promote this big lie that somehow the election was stolen.” “does the R. party ...want to ...take on the Trump Big Lie…take on these conspiracy theories that are crazy and nuts?” The Purple Principle, 28.6.22.

Ashley Parker. Reporter, Washington Post. On Washington Week, pbs, “fealty to the Big Lie, this false and baseless claim that the election was stolen, is something that is incredibly important to him (Trump] when he is making endorsements, and he wants to be a kingmaker.” 5.8.22.

Tammy Patrick. Formerly Bipartisan Policy Center. Democracy Fund. 6.5.21. News Hour. Import lots of quotes.

******** Mike Pence. “the issue of challenging the legitimacy of elections was deeply unfortunate. The election was not stolen. The election was conducted under the Constitution. It was reviewed by the courts.” NH, 1.12.22.

******** Mike Pence. The day of January 6th. “And I truly believe, in my heart of hearts, that we did our duty that day, under the Constitution.” Cspan. From Washington Journal 19.10.22. address at McCourt School.

******** Pennsylvania. Philadelphia Inquirer. “Mastriano’s relentless efforts to thwart the results of the 2020 presidential election, spread Donald Trump’s election lies ...a 10-alarm fire for anyone who believes in a functioning democracy.” From Morning Joe, 15.9.22.

******** Chad Pergram. Long-time senior Congressional correspondent on Fox News Network. On “Special Report with Bret Baier”, 13.10.22. on January 6th committee: “The Committee played new tape from Trump confidant Steve Bannon, who said the president never planned to leave office, NO MATTER THE ELECTION RESULTS.” Our emphasis.

******** Nate Persily. Expert at Stanford University. News Hour, 24.9.21, in AZ “audits are good things. We know how to do good audits, every state should audit its elections. That’s not what this was. This really was part of a coordinated disinformation campaign to try to undermine the legitimacy of the election …. The whole goal here …was to cast doubt on the basic machinery of this election. …” ******** Cyber Ninjas did not find the election was stolen. “fishing expedition … Biden actually increased his vote totals ...confirms the ...results…” ******** Arizona.

Dan Pfeiffer. “The big Lie”, “Reliable Sources”, 12.6.22; also new book, “Battling the Big Lie”.

******** Philadelphia. Barr. 13.6.22 public hearing, c-span. Trump said high fraud in urban areas. Like Philadelphia. To Trump: “I said to him; ‘what’s your evidence of fraud? And He said more ppl voted in Philadelphia than there were voters. And that was absolutely rubbish.” Turnout there “in fact was not as impressive suburban counties. And there was nothing strange about the Philadelphia turnout.” Also, PN on number of absentee requests: “there’s no discrepancy at all.”

******** Philadelphia. ******** Al Schmidt. C-span public hearing. 13.6.22. “not only was there not evidence of 8,000 dead voters voting in Pennsylvania. There wasn’t evidence of 8. We took seriously every case that was referred to us, no matter how fantastical, no matter how absurd, and took every one of those seriously, including these. ”

Politico. From “Inside Politics” with Manu Raju, 4.8.24. Politico WH correspondent Eli Sokols. “his own excuse narrative about why he lost in 2020.”

Politico. Headline, from Washington Journal, 19.3.21. “after Trump’s loss and false fraud claims, GOP outlines voter restrictions.”

Politico. Headline; . “Trump clings to false election claims at AZ rally”, Washington Journal, 25.7.21. ******** Politico.

Politico. “the ongoing attempt to question and overturn legitimate election results.” From Washington Journal f30.12.21. also, “rallying behind …Trump’s false assertions that the election was stolen…” from Morning Joe, 23.8.22.

******** Politifact. BBCWNA, 1.7.24. “fraud lawsuits failed due to error, lack of evidence.” Good overview. ******** BBC. ******** Katryna Price (sp?).

******** Ramesh Ponnuru. Editor of National Review and columnist for The Washington Post, and formerly senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Washington Journal, 18.1.21. when electors voted, “He tried to overturn an election and he had a campaign of lies and conspiracy theories for 2 months that wd hv been impeachable even if it hadn’t ended with. ….capitol Hill …. you had very few R.s who were willing to stand up and say that what the president was saying was untrue. In fact, what the president was saying was frequently lying.”

Ramesh Ponnuru. Op-ed Washington Post 11.8.23. “The votes in the 2020 election were legally cast and accurately counted, and Biden won ..in the key states.” Also, “This Week”, 13.8.23. some “think it’s rude to point out that he DIDN’T win in 2020 … If Trump actually won in 2020, counterfactually, …”

******** Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman. SOTU, CNN 31.1.21. “Let me just say this clearly and as you know I’ve said this since November, that there was not adequate irregularities or fraud – not widespread enough – to change the result of the election. Period. That’s my view. And btw it’s the view of the Trump Justice Dept. – bill Barr said that b4 he left office. ...I was a Trump supporter. We must recognize that this election was lost and that Joe Biden is now the legitimately elected president of the united states.”

******** Sidney Powell. Attorney for President Trump. and leading proponent of the lies about the presidential election. She admitted her arguments were garbage. In a court testimony “No reasonable person wd conclude that my statements were truly statements of fact.” Get verbatim. Famous quote.

******** Sidney Powell. 60 Minutes, 23.10.22. after her allegations, Chris Krebs tweeted IMMEDIATELY something like “That was the most insane and dangerous 45 minutes of TV in American history”. Get verbatim. Also, Morning Joe, MSNBC 14.11.23. “Where you ever around when someone told Trump that he lost the election?” “Oh, yeah. Pat Cippolone, Eric Herschman, Derek Lyons all thought he had lost.” Video. Ellis and Powell were two main people propagating the Big Lie; going to AZ with Giuliani to pressure Rusty Bowers to overturn AZ election results.

Former Rep. Deborah Pryce, (R., OH). See entry on National Council on Election Integrity.

Jen Psaki. Inside, 5.8.24. “Trump’s lie that he won the 2020 presidential election.”

Pro Publica. Reporter. Verify identity. Hoover 2/3 of R.s “believe in the big Lie”. 26.4.22. millions believe voting machines hacked by foreign governments. Antrim report. But even “the ORIGINAL version of that report didn’t make such strong assertions”. Original author only said ‘suspicious’. Import video.

******** Brad Raffensperger. Secretary of State of Georgia. Attorney General? Washington Journal, 7.11.21. first GA election with verifiable paper ballots, “fraud ...not supported by the facts.” From New book; “I voted for President Trump …lifelong conservative R. …disappointed in the outcome ….” “dead people who voted …I believe …we’re up to 4. But we never 10,000. We never saw 5,000 dead people. Less than 5. Chapter 9 of his book “Integrity Counts” has the entire transcript of the hour and ten-minute call with Trump. The audio is also available. He invites you to “come to your own conclusions” when you listen yourself. Trump verbatim said 50s of thousands -- and that’s ppl that went to vote and they were told they can’t vote b/c they’ve already been voted for. “ in fact, no one ever called the GA Sec of State and said they were told they couldn’t vote b/c somebody else had already voted in their name. Obviously, every single one would do so. Especially b/c Trump had said there will be massive fraud. They would go to the newspapers, to Fox News, etc. etc. radio talk shows. ************ Trump never called back and gave evidence to anyone. Raffensperger’s book says “never received a report from certified accountants for the Trump campaign. If thousand had been turned away from the polls…wd have contacted our office.” Not a single person ever claimed this later. Book: “letter to our GA R. congressional delegation ...point-by-point rebuttal ...spurious allegations”. Guy with gun asking for him in the Capitol. So dangerous that it’s surprising how many ARE willing to tell the truth. every member of that delegation voted to certify their OWN election results with the same ballots, same machines, same electoral count as Trump. 28,000 left presidential election blank. Some R.s running had 33,000 more votes than Trump. He was not as popular in GA as other R. candidates. Lots of data points. Import his statistics. entri

Raffensperger. ********** Meet the Press, 31.10.21. “He said there were 10,000 dead ppl; there were less than five. He said there were thousands of felons and there was less than 74. He said there were 66,000 underage voters. There were zero. And so you run down every single rabbit trail. And none of it was ever supported by the facts.” “called me the enemy of the people. ...” “came up 11,800 votes short. And I had the numbers. Here are the real facts. ...” David Purdue got 20,000 more votes in Atlanta area than Trump; they all left the presidential ballot blank. That was the real story he says. Jody Hice, new candidate for Sec of State voted to certify his OWN election with the same machines and the same ballots as Trump but voted to overturn Trump vote totals. Link: democratic party. ***** he voted Trump twice and donated cash to his presidential campaigns.

******** Brad Raffensperger, c-span, 20.4.21. 100% recount of verified ballots, virtually same total. 12,000 delta. 3rd recount, virtually same count. Equipment “every rumor that was thrown out by Trump campaign surrogates, including the ones thrown out by Sidney Powell” “instead of thousands of dead people who have voted, we found two people who died and someone voted in their place, and we’re trying to find out who that is, but that’s two, not 5,000, not 10,000. And so that wasn’t enough. We had not a single underage voter vote in the state of GA. …not a single underage voter in the state of GA.” Also statements on chain of custody. “full chain of custody”.

Manu Raju. CNN. On “Washington Week”, PBS, 13.5.22. “the same baseless conspiracy theories and lies that DT did that the 2020 election was stolen, that there was widespread fraud that cost him the election….”

Senator Jack Reed. floor, “baseless lies”. 6.1.22. ‘he repeatedly lied ...clearly not the case.” ”anyone who refused to subvert the election became a target of the insurrectionist mob. …lies and misinformation. ...relentless lying since then …”

******** Diane Rehm. On My mind, 2.3.21. “Trump’s false claim of a rigged election.”

Republicans. “Likely Iowa GOP caucus-goers, from the gold standard Des Moines Register poll; 13.6.23 to 17.6.23. “Do you believe Trump’s stolen election claims?” ******** REPUBLICANS, 41% say “NO”; it is a LIE! Even Republican voters admit this. And presumably among the most educated, it is 80%, and among the most ignorant who just listen to Trump and to a tiny few information sources (Fox, OANN, Breitbart, etc.

******** Republicans. Members all know Trump’s lies. But few will admit it. Norman Ornstein, On My Mind, 14.5.21. cowardice. “We’ve seen at least a couple of R.s in the House – Adam Kinzinger, who’s the most outspoken among them – saying that he doesn’t think that there is more than a handful who really, truly believe that the election was stolen. My guess is that it’s more than a handful but it’s less by far than a majority, but they do not want to do anything that calls into question their fealty to Donald Trump.” The hold over their constituents.

******** Republicans. Of Republican Senators, only 13 of 50 even voted to debate his allegations of fraud. C. 7.1.21. only 6 or so challenged the results in some of the states? PA and AZ.

******** Republicans. This note includes a long list of Republicans, many on video. ******************** ******** Ben Ginsberg. Republican party election lawyer. After 2016 election also, “President Trump started a commission to look for that in 2017. They could find nothing. They disbanded before they could even file a report.” From CNN special report “Trumping Democracy: an American coup”. Also, VP of Maricopa County board of supervisors, Republican: “There was no fraud involved in this, no corruption. Why do I feel confident about that? b/c this has been the most scrutinized election we’ve ever run. My job …. There was nothing to it.” Import full quote. ******** Maricopa County. ******** Al Schmidt, Philadelphia R. commissioner: it takes days to count absentee, and R.s made the law saying they couldn’t begin to be counted until Election Day and R.s refused to change that law. R.s had changed the law to expand absentee voting, and that was BEFORE the pandemic. The allegation of suitcases of fake ballot being pulled from under the table: “it was cut and spliced …those weren’t suitcases. They were already pre-approved cases all over the state.” Identify speaker and location of fraud allegation. False Venezuela allegations on Dominion Election Systems; 6 days before the allegations, internal Trump memo confirmed no ties between Dominion and Venezuela. ******** Pennsylvania. ******** Philadelphia. GA Lieutenant Governor! Geoff Duncan. committed to investigate all allegations. After TV appearances, Trump sent tweets “puppet LG ...Duncan ....disasters for Georgia… a RINO Never Trumper ...too dumb or corrupt to recognize massive evidence of fraud in GA …. 8.12.20. “and then within minutes after that, either me or my wife wd start to get threats which wd start to show up on our phone. I mean like blood-curdling threats from the most awful sounding individuals and deep meaning that wd know things about you and your family who would know intentionally trying to ...intimidate us. ...all trying to get us to sit down and be quiet.” Video. Trumpists banging on the glass of the convention center: “stop the count! Stop the count! Stop the count!” Van Langevelde. Vice Chair Republican voted to certify: Republicans then ejected him from the board. [of course, the next person will be far more inclined to vote the party line of Trump supporters. Amazingly, Trump actually said that his OWN DOJ was “missing in action. I can’t tell you where they are.” Man! Video. Bill Barr, 1 December 2020 to AP “we hv not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.” Steal. Representative Adam Kinzinger. Obviously many of his interactions with fellow R. House members wd be about the ‘steal.’ Asked how many of those R.s believe the election was stolen. Obviously hyper-informed Americans. “If I had to guess, I’d say 5 or 10.” All other members politically afraid of losing their job from fear of swarm from Trump. Geoff Duncan was actually criticized as being TOO CONSERVATIVE to be a viable statewide candidate. He said “it certainly felt like” Trump was asking him and Raffensperger to do something illegal to change vote totals. Duncan: “We could feel the angst and the hate building, over nothing. Over a mirage; over a shiny object to deflect from the fact that Donald Trump had lost the election fair and squarely.” GA pressure call was over an hour. “They’re shredding ballots in my opinion. ...You’re not reporting it. That’s a, you know, that’s a criminal, that’s a criminal offense.. ...That’s, that’s a big risk TO YOU.” Golly! Raffensperger; “he kept on circling back to all I need is…” 11,780 votes. Video. Repeated chants by the insurrectionists: “hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!” It was an actual attack on the peaceful transition of power. 2/3 of House R.s voted to challenge electors. But 1/3 of all R.s said it was legitimate. Even the R. party incumbents. Q.: “Do you think that they actually believe this cause that they hv taken up?” Kinzinger: “Not a word of it. I don’t think they believe any of it.” Good quote by Liz Cheney on members who told her they wanted to vote to impeach bt “afraid to vote that way b/c of their security, the security of their families…” Cheney was more conservative than Stefanik; she voted to support Trump more than Stefanik did. On the Big Lie, of her fellow incumbents: “How many of them do you think actually believe it?” Cheney: “Very few. Very few. Too many ppl are putting their own political future and their political fortunes, ahead of doing their duty. …In other cases, it’s a political calculation, which is pretty craven, if you think about it.” “Do you think that he wd try to impose some form of autocracy?” ******** Alyssa Farah Griffin. Trump White House Communications Director. “I think that he absolutely would. There were some things that he wanted to do when he was in power the first time that were well beyond the scope of… but often it was the hope of winning re-election that kept him from doing things.” Import full verbatim quote. “weaponizing the Justice Department against political opponents, ...going after the free press, he certainly wd be open to using the military for political purposes as well…” ******** Liz Cheney. ******** Department of Justice. Under Trump!

******** Republicans. Senate hearing on Election Security 19.5.22. Not a single R. senator alleged a massive rigging of the United States presidential election, which would obviously be the only issue relevant if it had in fact occurred. E.g., Tammy Patrick was one witness, so you can locate the entire video in the c-span archives.

Former Rep. Reid Ribble, (R., WI). See entry on National Council on Election Integrity.

******** Condoleezza Rice. Amanpour 25.7.22. “I am ready for a new generation of leadership. … I’ve made my views on January 6th very clear. It was a STAIN on American democracy. Walter, I CRIED that night. Because I thought to myself …. I STUDY countries that do this. I don’t LIVE under a country that does this.” “I thank God for Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and for Michael Pence. B/c the American system held. …We need a new generation of political leadership.” Good extended quote.

******** Steven Richer. Recorder of Maricopa County. ******** Maricopa County. ******** Arizona. “60 Minutes.” , 7 October, 2024. Trump lost it by 45,000 votes. And those ballots were HAND-COUNTED after tabulation. Steve Pelley: “Statewide, prosecutions for illegal voting involved a total of 19 ballots.” In Maricopa, 50 ballots were miscounted in tabulation and they were divided between the candidates! There were 2.1m ballots. 50 were miscounted and had no effect anyway before the hand count. Pelley: “What evidence of widespread fraud was found in Maricopa County in 2020?” Richer, the County Recorder: “None. And I would say that Maricopa County’s election in 2020 was the most scrutinized election in human history.” Trump called the Arizona election “an unbelievable election crime.” Trump said the entire election database had been deleted. “It was a Saturday afternoon and I was in the office looking at the VERY DATABASE THAT TRUMP SAID HAD BEEN DELETED. The ludicrous nature of it was offensive. …This was a disprovable as saying that 2+2=5.” Shelby Bush, the woman who established a PAC to say the election was rigged has raised a million dollars, and said into a microphone: “If Steven Richer walked into this room, I would lynch him.”

******** Steven Richer. ******** Maricopa County. Recorder of Maricopa County, Arizona. Republican, beat a Democrat incumbent in 2020. “the county’s highest election official in 2020.” “and he says that not only was the election honest, but that his R. colleagues that claim otherwise are challenging the underlying foundation of the United States. So you’re saying that those election machines were secure? ‘That’s a FACT. Every single test has worked. … They went through FEDERAL certification; they went through state certification. They went through tests BEFORE the election. They went through a hand-count audit by the political parties themselves and it always matched 100%.’ But that, spoken by a conservative who voted for Trump, is still not enough for some voters.”

Former Sec. Tom Ridge, founding Secretary of the Dept. of Homeland Security and Republican Governor of PN. See netry on National Council on Election Integrity.

******** Denver Riggelman. Morning Joe 14.6.22. “you had multiple ppl in Trump’s inner circle telling him it was false, it wasn’t fact.”

Denver Riggelman. ******** Antrim County. “Michael Flynn’s Holy War”, Frontline, 18.10.22. “So when you’re talking about Antrim County, you’re talking about fake data that is then presented as real data.”

******** John Roberts. Fox News Channel. 21.6.22. immediately following the end of the January 6 committee. “President Trump and his aides insist there were widespread irregularities in the vote count in 2020, state officials insisting AGAIN today they found no evidence of that.” The biggest deal of the day was Speaker of the AZ house of delegates saying he felt he was being asked to do something unconstitutional. Import full quote. Link: bias. Fox News. That was the immediate summary of the hearing’s testimony. But Fox broke away exactly about 1 minute after the hearing ended with Roberts’ analysis and broke away to Martha MacCallum who immediately went into a news alert on a mass shooting in Uvalde 28 days ago about developments in that shooting. She burned through the entire following half hour covering other stories (inflation, gas tax holiday, Elon Musk twitter purchase offer, etc.).

******** Rochester Hills. ******** Michigan. ******** Tina Barton. Forum, 11.8.22. Republican. “No one contacted me to see what had happened, or to seek the truth. Instead the following statement was made …. “found 2,000 ballots that had been given to Democrats …. I responded with the following statement, which was shared by video: ‘My name is Tina Barton …all ballots are and have been accounted for. There were no missing ballots. The accusation that 2,000 were found was categorically false.” As a Republican, I am disturbed that this was being intentionally mischaracterized to undermine the election process. This was an unintentional mistake that was quickly rectified once realized. Everyone should have complete confidence in our voting system. …and there is a paper ballot backup.” Death threats. Still visibly moved by the trauma of rape threats.

Ret. Admiral Mike Rogers, member of Issue One and the National Council on Election Integrity.

******** Mitt Romney. C-SPAN air 23.11.23. import extended quote. “There’s been no evidence of widespread fraud. Actually, most of the evidence so far has been REPUBLICANS trying to corrupt the election. And yet they continue to put it out there and to promote it….”

Rolling Stone. Hunter Walker. News Hour, 25.10.21. “trading quote-unquote evidence of supposed election fraud. Obviously, any of that would have been baseless…” he’s author of the evidence of members coordinating the insurrection on Jan. 6. Import text to clarify.

******** Jeffrey Rosen. Hearing audio. C-span 13.6.22 public hearing. Acting attorney General: “the president wd say, ‘ppl are telling me this, or I heard this …and we were in a position to say our ppl hv already looked at that. And we know that you’re getting bad information that, that’s not correct. It’s been demonstrated to be incorrect …it’s been debunked.” Also on Velshi, 16.10.22. “well of course Judge Luttig played such a crucial role in preserving the integrity of the last presidential election.”

******** Senator Mike Rounds, R., ND. 10.1.22 News Hour. Today, Trump fighting with him; “about whether the election was stolen or not. The R. senator is speaking the truth, Senator Rounds, announcing that the election wasn’t stolen. And yet President Trump continues to claim that…”

******** Karl Rove. JER, Fox News, 17.12.22. The Freedom Caucus opposing Mcarthy for Speaker: “These are the ‘constitutionalists’. But they’re the people who did NOT participate in backing up the Constitution on January 6th.”

******** Karl Rove. On Fox interview. Re-aired on Morning Joe, 7.3.23. “we did have the recitation that he did actually win the 2020 election, and that he had won it by a lot. … You didn’t win the election. You aren’t president of the United States.”

Karl Rove. Emotional video. From Rancho Mirage, 1.2.24. from MORNING JOE, MSNBC 4.4.24. “violently attacked the Capitol …is a stain on our history, and …send them to jail.”

Jennifer Rubin. Column headline: “Liz Cheney and Larry Hogan show what It Means to Stand Up to GOP Lies”. Morning Joe, 27.7.22. Larry Hogan.

******** Paul Ryan. On “This Week”, ABC. If Trump is nominated: “We’ll probably lose the White House, like we did in 2020.”

Paul Ryan. Asked about legitimacy perceptions and those “who don’t view ..as legitimate….” “I think those things are dangerous. Calling into question legitimacy of elections, which WERE WON FAIRLY, based on just the political interests of onemguy is, frankly, ridiculous to me.” Washington Post magazine, 25.12.22.

Larry Sabato. Professor of political science at University of Virginia. Center for Politics. On “The Situation Room”. CNN. 12.11.22. some Trump supporters “will always be willing to argue that there was voter fraud when their candidates lose. Now, if their candidates win, of course it was a totally honest, secure election. This is nonsense. And more and more people understand that it’s nonsense. …There’s no truth to it.”

Salon. Staff writer. News article. “former President Trump’s election lies. ...no evidence of significant or widespread fraud.” Igor Derysh. 19.10.21.

******** Senator Ben Sasse, R., Nebraska. “Last y, we had a president who disgraced his office by trying to steal an election.” Floor, 13.1.22.

******** Ben Sasse. Washington Week, 5.2.21; “shameful mob violence …it happened b/c the president lied to you.” Also, floor, “last year, we had a president who disgraced his office by trying to steal an election.”13.1.22.

******** Dan Scavino. Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff. UNDER OATH, he testified that there was not fraud significant enough to affect the outcome of the election. “This Week”, 7.1.24.

Joe Scarborough. Morning Joe. 30.8.22. “to an election that everyone knew that he lost.”

******** Senator Tim Scott, R., SC. 2.5.21. Face the Nation. 70% of R.s believe Biden illegitimate b/c stolen. Asked if he was the legitimate president; “Of course he is.” Also, SOTU, 18.2.24. Mike Pence “absolutely” did the right thing to certify the 2020 election on January 6.

******** Tim Scott. From MORNING JOE, MSNBC28.5.24. from SOTU. “Well, certainly we expect a fair and honest election, and as a result of that expectation, we will certify the election….”

******** Gerald Seib. Wall Street Journal. Executive Washington Editor. Columnist also. Washington Journal 9.5.22. “in the end, Donald Trump lost. …Yes, he lost. …”

******** Pete Sessions. Republican Representative. Hearing, 11.8.22, “and when I have presented information to the FBI …detailed information…we did not call it vote fraud. We called it abnormalities, inconsistencies and irregularities. He complains that those have not been adequately investigated. But even HE does not allege that there is significant fraud. Verify. even his allegations on Dallas County. ******** Dallas County. “I did not call this fraud. I called this inconsistencies and abnormalities and irregularities.

******** Rina Shah. Velshi, 30.3.24. Trump supporters are “people who don’t have contact with reality”. Import verbatim.

Ira Shapiro. German Marshall Fund event, c-span 31.10.22. “Senate Republicans failed the country at a catastrophic level by not stopping Donald Trump’s assault on our democracy …”

Michael Sherer. WASHINGTON POST national political reporter. On WASHINGTON POST Live, 24.4.24 interview with Kelly Anne Conway. “denial of the election results.”

******** Nate Silver. “This Week”, 24.10.21. “66% of R.s believe Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud …” also, 20.11.22, “This Week”, “believe Trump’s false claims about the last election.”

******** “60 Minutes”. 10.1.21. assertion that thousands either under age (or dead?) voted. Actual number, as certified by GA officials: only two are even INVESTIGATED!!!!! Republican officials! ******** 60 Minutes.

******** “60 Minutes”. “President Trump’s false claims of a stolen election.” Steve Pelley. 15.9.24.

******** Snopes.com. “the false claim that the 2020 election was marred by widespread fraud.” 7.1.22.

******** formr Senator Gordon Smith (R., OR). An author of the “Lost, not stolen: The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election” report by a group of respected conservative authors” report refuting in detail allegations by Trump of fraud.

Senator Tina Smith. floor, 6.1.22. “falsely that the election had been stolen…” US Senator, MN.

Jackie Speier. Reliable Sources, 1.8.21. Her R. colleagues are all lying to the voters to please Trump; “the big lie has now been endorsed by the majority of members on the R. side in the H. of R.s. They are now paralyzed to speak truth. They know it. They know the election wasn’t stolen. They know that it was held properly. They know that there was not massive fraud. And yet they will continue to mouth those words b/c ….”

Timothy Snyder. Harvard University. Reliable Sources 26.9.21; Harvard prof, author, “On Tyranny” “one party ...lying about the vote …a two-party system, and one of the parties is lining up against democracy ...democracy ...cannot be taken for advantage.” Good extended quote. Timothy Snyder.

Robby Soave. Reason Magazine. Senior editor. Reliable Sources, 19.6.22. about the term “the Big Lie”. Said the term is not clear b/c there are so many lies. “In fact, there are any number of lies, claims Trump has made that are lies, even prior to the election. ...so I think ‘Trump’s election lies’ is probably a better way to talk about it.”

Michael Steele. Guest hosting Velshi, 11.6.22. import best quote verbatim.

Brian Stelter. CNN. “His claims of fraud ARE the fraud.” Rebroadcast 17.10.21.

George Stephanopoulos, “This Week”, “Trump’s lies about that day….” 7.1.24.

******** Bill Stepien. Trump campaign manager. 13.6.22. hearing. “very, very, very bleak” returns over the days. This “wild claim [AZ] didn’t seem realistic or possible to me” that there were thousands of ineligible voters. “the reality of that was nt illegal citizens voting in the election. I think it was like overseas voters, voting in the election.so obviously, ppl who were eligible to vote.” Wanted to protect his “reputation for being honest and professional. And I didn’t think that what was happening was either honest or professional, at that point in time. So that led to me stepping away.”

******** Gabriel Sterling. Georgia. Georgia deputy Secretary of State. Press conference. ******************* import wording. No fraud. “zero proof. Zero.” All of those states are run by R.s. R. secretaries of state. No judge. No state legislature. 4.1.21. c-span. Refutes every fraudulent claim by Trump.

******** Chris Stirewalt. Fox political editor. He led the Fox News Network decision desk. And the decision was unanimous in the team. at Fox 2020. 13.6.22. Trump had no basis to claim victory on election night. Red mirage. Import text. Everyone expected Democrat surge on absentee ballots. They knew that pandemic caused absentee to rise 50% and was heavily Democrat. D. surge “happens every time”. Hearing.

Chris Stirewalt. AEI. C-span. 26.10.22. Kari Lake, AZ governor nominee “wd enthusiastically like to abet in the theft of some electoral vote.”

Margaret Sullivan. Former media columnist for the Washington Post. Former Public Editor of the New York Times. NH13.11.22. “we need to tell people that they are lying about elections, ...we need to be clear about that lie – and it is a lie, to be magnified and to be spread, but to counter it all of the time. And that’s hard to do. It gives people the sense that we’re on one side, but that’s not what’s happening here; we’re on the side of truth.

******** Chris Sununu. Governor., News Hour; import quote from c. 14.11.21. on lies and Trump cult of personality. Tuesday, 9.11.21?

******** the Supreme Court. Trump. At CPAC. “this election was rigged, and the Supreme Court and other courts didn’t want to do anything about it.” 28.2.21. Yeah, who you gonna believe?!!! “they didn’t have the courage, the Supreme Court didn’t have the courage to act …” ******** the judiciary. ******** the courts.

Kara Swisher, Amanpour. 11.1.21. “it all starts w/ Donald Trump, and all the lies and misinformation…”

******** Charlie Sykes. Washington Journal, 21.5.21. good extended quote. Cheney voted w/ Trump over 90% of the votes. Ejected “for one reason and one reason only – b/c she refuses to go along with Donald Trump’s Big Lie about the election…”

Charlie Sykes. “This has been his big obsession; the Big Lie.” Washington Journal, 28.5.22.

Charlies Sykes. Morning Joe 4.8.22. Vos “funded a costly, bogus investigation that found absolutely no fraud whatsoever.” get verbatim. ******** Wisconsin. Also, Morning Joe, MSNBC 25.10.23, “The Big Lie…”

Jake Tapper. SOTU, 17.10.21. “ a majority of R. voters out there who think falsely that the election was stolen.”

******** Jessica Taylor. Cook Political Report. Discussion on election denialism. 31.10.22. c-span, German Marshall Fund. “Josh Shapiro is running away with that election there, over complete election denier Doug Mastriano …so there’s a little bit more comfort that Shapiro will win and …have election integrity and different things, as we see it.”

******** Mark Thiessen. Fox News Network, 9.11.22. on “America’s Newsroom.” Good extended quote on how he’s so pro-Trump. “…I’m not a never-Trumper. But the election denial put people over the edge. ...in 2020, voters didn’t reject Trumpism; they rejected Trump. There’s a big difference. The Trump policies are extremely popular.” Also, on Fox; “Trump …lost in 2020. He lost in 2020 b/c he lost 43,000 swing voters in swing states.” From MORNING JOE, MSNBC 26.1.24.

******** Cal Thomas. Syndicated columnist. Washington Journal 6.6.21. “I’ve been open to that for some time ….I want to see the evidence. I’ve heard a lot of gossip, I’ve seen a lot of statements that somebody snuck in ballot boxes at 3 in the morning after everybody had gone home, that there were double counts and all of these other things you read on the internet, but I want to see hard evidence, and ….” Good extended quote. “Show me the evidence; don’t just show me these web sites that indulge in conspiracy theories.” Also, Washington Journal, C-SPAN, 19.7.24, “the so-called stolen election”.

******** Senator John Thune, R., SD. Nh, 7.3.24. his quote after Jan 6; what he did “to undermine faith in our election system and disrupt the peaceful transition of power is inexcusable.”

******** Time Magazine. Article by Eric Cortellessa. “his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.” From Morning Joe, MSNBC 2.5.24.

******** Senator Pat Toomey, R., PA. Tweet 2.1.21. “allegations …found to be unsupported by evidence.” “the evidence is overwhelming that Joe Biden won this election.” From Washington Journal,3.1.21.

******** Pat Toomey. SOTU 26.9.21; “in my mind, it’s very clear; Joe Biden won the election…”

******** True the Vote. ******** Arizona. ******** Mark Brnovich. REPUBLICAN Attorney General!!! From “Morning Joe”, 28.10.22. True the Vote “has not provided us any information/evidence of election fraud in Arizona…” armed, MASKED men follow drop box voters to their cars and TAKE THEIR LICENSE PLATE NUMBERS! Intimidation. Drop boxes.

******** True the Vote. NH 19.2.24. The GA state board of Elections REPEATEDLY tried to get documents from True the Vote on their claims, which Trump claimed about. It filed a lawsuit against them. It never handed documents over. The judge finally ordered them to respond and the group “responded in their recent filing with the SAME answer to each request for evidence, saying: “True the Vote has no such documents in its possession, custody or control.” Trump continues to repeat those bogus claims “even today.”

******** Ivanka Trump. ************ testimony to January 6 commission. “I respected Attorney General Barr. So I accepted what he was saying” that the allegations were garbage. 9.6.22 c-span.

******** Trump’s OWN lawyers!!! He said it was a fraud, but in court, when they were sworn to truth, his own lawyers said that they were not asserting any fraud. Daily Show, 3.6.24. “This is not a fraud case. We are not alleging fraud in this lawsuit. We’re not alleging that anyone is stealing the election.”; Kory Langhofer, also, Rudy Giuliana, 14.11.20; in court, “If we had alleged fraud, yes, but this is not a fraud case.” On the Pennsylvania election count. Are these quotes out of context? RN.

******** Trump. **** ******** Trump knew it was all lies. Verbatim from the indictment transcript, from Pence’s transcript. “In response, [Trump] told the Vice President, ’'You’re too honest.’” From Morning Joe, MSNBC 2.8.23. ******** Mike Pence.

Trump. 600 pp. letter in Wall Street Journal; “largely debunked claims of fraud in PN ...Biden won by 81,660 …” from WASHINGTON POST writeup. From Washington Journal 28.10.21. Import text to clarify.

******** Trump campaign lawyers themselves. ******** Justin Clark. Trump campaign lawyer. 21.6.22 hearing, c-span. “inappropriate. …at some point I just said, all right, you just get after it. I’m out.” ******** matt Morgan. Trump campaign lawyer: “at that point, ...politely to say, ‘this is your task. You are responsible for electoral college issues moving forward. And this was my way of taking my responsibility to zero.” Both demanded that only Cheeseborough (spelling?) do it all. Cassidy Hutchinson aide to Meadows. Not legally sound, “yes, sir”. Finley also lawyer refusing to participate as campaign lawyer.

Karen Tumulty. News Hour, 8.10.21. “it has become practically an article of faith in the R. party that if you want to have a shot at elective office, you hv to say these things that really undermine the integrity of the electoral system.”

Katy Tur. “Katy Tur Reports, 15.5.24; “Biden won and Trump refused to concede…” from MediaBuzz, 19.5.24.

******** Jonathan Turley. Fox News Nework contributor. From Media Buzz. 19.6.22. “what was clear, and I said it on that day, is that Pence really was a profile in courage. He was that redeeming moment.” He wouldn’t have said this is the presidential election had been a fraud! Pence resisted Trump trying to steal the election.

******** Mike Turner. Republican member of Congress. Incoming Republican chair of House Oversight Committee in charge of investigations. Face the Nation, 22.1.23. When told: “You are not, by CBS standards, an election denier.” His response: “I am not.”

******** Michigan Rep. Fred Upton. “Nobody has ever produced any evidence at all that the election was stolen….” Good extended quote. Morning Joe, 4.4.22. video. Damning quote is better, CNN 9AM hour, 16.8.23. “debunked”, ETC. “News Central.”

******** USA TODAY. From Washington Journal 7.1.22. “in GA, three separate audits; in Michigan, an audit of the …” they go state by state and refute the claims in each state. WI, PA, AZ, etc. ******** Wisconsin. ******** Pennsylvania. ******** Arizona.

******** Trump Vice Presidential Vice President running mate J. D. Vance. When asked point blank by Gov. Tim Walz in his Vice Presidential debate “Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?”, Vance pointedly refused to respond that there was any significant evidence of election fraud or that the presidential election was stolen.

Ali Velshi. 10.7.22. Velshi, MSNBC. “helped spread the Big Lie.”

******** Robin Vos. Republican Speaker of the House in Wisconsin. Amy Walter. News Hour, 8.8.22. “Trump had endorsed his primary opponent. And why? b/c Vos will not …believe in the Big Lie that the President has put forward.”

Michael Waldman. Washington Journal 19.1.22. He cited favorably “as Donald Trump’s own D. of Homeland Sec. and many, many courts confirmed, it was the most secure election on record.” “Trump’s Big Lie, the slander that the 2020 election was stolen…” Brennan Center. “our elections are very secure. …Every study shows, every investigation shows, voter fraud in the U.S. is vanishingly rare. You’re more likely to be hit by lightning than to commit in-person voter fraud.” Salt. Weasel words. “extraordinarily secure”. Most important is paper ballots. And recounts. Cited AG Barr.

******** Herschel Walker. Georgia Republican Senate nominee. Fox News, “Fox Live”, 15.10.22. in their only public debate, “walker acknowledged that President Biden legitimately won the 2020 election.” Greg Nash.

******** Wall Street Journal Editorial Board: “Kari Lake’s Loss Destroys ‘Stop the Steal’” headline. C. 16.11.22. from “Morning Joe”, 16.11.22.

******** Wall Street Journal. Washington Journal 7.1.22. “the main reason that President Trump failed in his attempt to overturn the 2020 election was the action of hundreds of individual Republicans. VP Mike Pence refused to interfere with the proper Electoral College vote count in the Senate ….Barr ...found no evidence ….R- appointed judges ruled against ...legal challenges based on flimsy evidence. Kemp ...and …Raffensperger ...refused to break under Mr. Trump’s pressure.”

Wall Street Journal. The Journal was attacked for printing Trump’s long letter with lies. Editorial board responded to attacks: “We think it’s new when an ex-President ...even if (or perhaps especially if) his claims are bananas..” Note that they did NOT claim that what they printed was TRUE! 28.10.21. from Media Buzz, 31.10.21. Susan Ferrichio: the Wall Street Journal came back “and pretty much debunked what Trump was thoroughly in the article that they wrote following Trump’s op-ed.” Import their statements.

******** Wall Street Journal. from 24.10.21 editorial, conservative editorial board “argued that the statewide margin ...too vast for a debate over the status of approximately 10,000 mail in ballots that arrived after the Election day deadline to be germane. ...’The country is lucky the election wasn’t closer,’ the board wrote. ‘If the election had hung on a few thousand ...”from Washington Post writeup. From Washington Journal, 28.10.21. RN. Import quotes from Wall Street Journal.

******** Wall Street Journal. Washington Journal 26.7.21. “asked ...to overturn the results of a free and fair election.” Michael Bender, WH reporter.

******** the Wall Street Journal editorial column. From WJ 20.12.22. “The 2020 election wasn’t stolen… ...even if he knows he’s misleading his follower. …Mr. Trump’s behavior on that day and since is a reason not to trust him with the Presidency ever again.””

******** Wall Street Journal. Editorial board 10.6.2022, 6:09pm ET, “Mr. Trump betrayed his supporters by conning them on Jan. 6, and he is still doing it.” Import text. Also, opinion, “The evidence of the Jan. 6 Committee: It’s a reminder of the violence and how Trump betrayed his supporters.” Import text.

******** the Wall Street Journal Editorial page. “The Justice Dept and Mr. Trump’s OWN campaign repeatedly told him that his fraud claims were without basis.” Our emphasis.

Chris Wallace. “I’m fine with opinion. …but when people start to question the truth -- who won the 2020 election? …I found that unsustainable.” New York Times 27.3.22. Reliable Sources27.3.22. on why he left Fox News. Also, Mediaite, 11.1.21. “a number of Fox News anchors have debunked claims of a stolen election, namely Bret Baier and Chris Wallace.”

Nicole Wallace. “Deadline White House”. 30.8.22. After playing video of Finchem saying “Donald Trump won that election.”, in AZ, “there was no fraud. Your guys did a fraudit and found …”

******** Joe Walsh former Republican member of Congress. “Velshi”, “DT led a conspiracy to overthrow an American election.” 13.8.22.

******** Amy Walter. Editor-in-Chief, The Cook Political Report. “we know that that’s not really the case. We’ve had multiple instances of the courts and of recounts ...finding no fraud, no problems. In fact, its remarkable to me …pandemic …that everything went as smoothly as it did.” News Hour, 31.5.21. also, News Hour 1.8.22. ******** Arizona. Cyber Ninjas “no fraud was ever found.” Biden vote totals actually rose.

******** Rep. Zach Wamp. Republican member of Congress, TN. WJ 23.12.22. “partisan politics should not trump, no pun intended, the actual results of the election. I wd define American exceptionalism as our ability as a nation …accept the results and peacefully transfer of power …and that separates us …we do it better than anyone else ….there were 50 court cases and there was no fraud that wd hv affected the results ….” “we did not have fraud in the 2020 election at any significant level anywhere in the country.”

Zach Wamp. 20.6.24. ******** Issue one. Washington Journal, C-SPAN. “We do this better than anybody in the world.” Also at event by Ford Presidential Center, 20.9.24 air, c-span, “free and fair elections and the peaceful transition of power…. You can’t argue ..our adherence to those principles. So we are exceptional there….”

******** Mark Warner, Sen. VA. moderate, temperate: floor, 6.1.22. “the Big Lie”. “lie that our elections are not secure”.

***************************** ******** the Washington Times. !! News article, from Washington Journal 15.4.21; “Protesters marched up Pennsylvania Ave. after the president told rallygoers about 3u7 claims of election theft. None has been proved, a Washington Times analysis shows.” *********** The institution itself has said in a news article that they are all lies.

******** the Washington Examiner. Byron York. Chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner. On Media Buzz, 17.12.23. Giuliani lies about GA election workers defaming them. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that he did defame the two people who sued him.” “passing usb ports like vials of heroin or cocaine. Giuliani once said: “We have a lot of theories but what we need is the evidence. And he still hasn’t produced that. …There hs nvr bn any evidence that it wd hv changed in any of these 5 states, including Georgia.”

Washington Post. E.g., Philip Rucker. News Hour 1.11.21. “he’s tried to sow doubt, tried to promulgate the big lie he had won the election when in fact he had lost the election ….”

Washington Post. Jacqueline Alamany, Morning Joe, 6.6.22. “that the President conspired to defraud the American people.”

******** the Washington Times. ******* Washington Journal, 4.1.22. from a NEWS article, not an opinion piece: “Trump ...repeat his DISPROVEN claim the Nov 3. 2020 election was stolen from him… that fueled the riot.”

******** the Washington Times. it writes about Mike Lindell (My Pillow) Washington Journal, 13.8.21. “still claims to have 37 terabytes of ‘irrefutable’ evidence that hackers ...China, broke into election systems, … As first reported by the Washington Times, Josh Merritt, a cyber expert on the ‘red team’ hired by Mr. Lindell to interrogate the data ...admitted that the packet captures are UNRECOVERABLE in the data and that the data ...CANNOT prove a cyber incursion. ‘So what our team decided is that we’re not going to say is that this is legitimate. ‘” import fuller text. ***************

******** David Wasserman. Washington Journal, C-SPAN, 16.4.24. ******** the Cook Political Report. “Why should anyone believe the conspiracy theories that one side is putting forward about election administration, particularly when there are MANY layers of safeguards in place to ensure that votes are counted fairly and accurately? Are human errors committed accidentally? Absolutely. Are they caught? Yes. …Kari Lake… was found liable for defamation in a suit brought forward by the Maricopa County reporter, who administers elections there. And she is currently in the damages phase of that case, to determine what she’s liable for. And if she hadn’t embraced theories that are blatantly false, and made up of whole cloth…. These theories that are brought forward about ballot printing and counting machines are so preposterous that there’s only one possible explanation of them. And that’s that the losers of those elections didn’t like the result. …I still have a great deal of faith in our elections administrators at the state and local level to conduct a fair and accurate election….”

Law Professor Kimberly Wehle. University of Baltimore School of Law. “because of the Big Lie…” Washington Journal, C-SPAN, 25 Sept., 2024.

******** Peter Wehner. Writer for The Atlantic, and fellow at the Trinity Forum. Speechwriter for Three Republican Presidents. Formerly at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, formerly at Empower America. Former aide to Secretary of Education Bill Bennett. Reliable Sources, 16.5.21. “There’s no evidence that the election was stolen or rigged.” Excellent extended quote on news outlets and politicians who are exacerbating it.

******** Wisconsin. ******** Andrew Hitt. Chair of the Republican party. VIGOROUS campaigner for Trump. Featured on “60 Minutes”. 18.2.24. e.g., fear for life. “scared to death”. Asked directly: “I mean it wasn’t stolen. It wasn’t stolen in Wisconsin.” Sworn statement. His action was “used as ..attempt to improperly overturn the 2020 presidential election results.” Fake electors.

******** Chad Wolf. Trump acting United States Secretary of Homeland Security. DHS. Willie Geist, Morning Joe, 29.7.22. “the former acting head of the Dept. of Homeland Security, resigned 5d after the attack on the Capitol. …he was one who did not dispute the results of the election. He said his dept was preparing for the orderly and smooth transition to President-elect Biden’s DHS team, not on board with the attempted coup, which Donald Trump hoped he would be….”

Scott Wong. The Hill. Washington Journal, 12.5.21. Liz Cheney; “at odds over this question about President Trump’s lie about the 2020 election. President Trump, as you know, has been saying, with no evidence, that this election was stolen ….”

******** Christie Todd Whitman. LA Times, also Miles Taylor.11.10.21. “R. leaders in the House and in many states hv now turned belief in conspiracy theories and lies about stolen elections into a litmus test for membership and running for office. …House R. leader Kevin McCarthy ...embraces Mr. Trump’s lies…” also, axios, 2.11.22; saying for decades, Romney presidential election, saying “Clearly the election was stolen”.

******** Judy Woodroof. Anchor and managing editor of PBS Newshour. PBS Newshour employee for 40 years. “the false claim that the 2020 election was fraudulent, that actually President Trump won. We know that that is not true…”; News Hour, 22.6.21.******** John Thune in response; “I’ve never second guessed the outcome of the 2020 election.” ******** John Thune.

Bob Woodward. Washington Week, 24.9.21. Senators Lee and Graham “investigated these claims of the stolen election and found zero evidence to support that”. ******** Lindsey Graham. ******** Mike Lee.

Bob Woodward, 8.6.22. News Hour. “Trump is staking his claim now that the election was stolen. Well, he lost. He did not win. And Carl and I, and Bob Costa, who I worked with on “peril”, spent a lot of time looking for evidence to suggest, or show, that the 2020 election was fraudulent and stolen. There is zero evidence. It just doesn’t pass the common sense test. I agree with Carl; it really was sedition …” Carl Bernstein. “seditious”.

******** Yahoo.com. from Washington Journal, 26.7.22. “while falsely claiming widespread fraud led to his defeat.”

Yahoo! “falsely claims Trump defeated Joe Biden in NV …” from Late Night with Stephen Colbert, 2.11.22.

******** John Yoo. Former Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, George W. Bush administration. ************** At event by Federalist Society. 24.8.23. University of California at Berkeley. John Eastman; “I really disagree with him on the facts. I don’t think that there was any finding of fraud, voter fraud that I thought cd hv changed the election. …Rudy Giuliani ..he did testify before the Georgia legislature under oath, and he basically said lots of things that turned out to be untrue, and now it looks like he had no factual basis for making those statements, for example, the indictment goes through how he said: ‘Oh, we’ve got lots of exmaples of voter fraud.’ And then they ask him to produce it, and he never produces it, or the stories change. …He just made factual statements to the legislature in Georgia that he knew were not true.”

******** Byron York. Chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner. On Media Buzz, 17.12.23. Giuliani lies about GA election workers defaming them. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that he did defame the two people who sued him.” “passing usb ports like vials of heroin or cocaine. Giuliani once said: “We have a lot of theories but what we need is the evidence. And he still hasn’t produced that. …There hs nvr bn any evidence that it wd hv changed in any of these 5 states, including Georgia.”

******** Fareed Zakaria. GPS 17.1.20. “nullify a legitimate election and thus overthrow an elected government.” No republican who was defeated in the 2020 election as a challenger even ALLEGED that they lost to the incumbent b/c votes were rigged in favor of Democrats! ********** also 16.5.21. … very involved …” excllnt extndd quotes.