Trump Kept Secret a Study That Found No Fraud in 2020
He didn't like the answer. By claiming the election was stolen, will he be indicted for fraud?
In the early morning hours after the 2020 election, Donald Trump told his supporters "Frankly, we did win this election. We did win it". Thus began "The Big Lie", his campaign that the election had been stolen. Only he said it. Millions then believed it because he said it.
But Trump was desperate to come up with something that could make his myth seem true, so his campaign contracted with Berkeley Research Group, a California outfit that helps organizations in "disputes and investigations" to look for the fraud that supposedly cost Trump his presidency. This effort was entirely unknown until The Washington Post broke the story in early February, unknown because Berkeley came up with nothing, a result displeasing to Trump that he and those around him have kept secret for over two years.
In the two months between the election and the January 6th insurrection, about a dozen Berkeley researchers studied results in six "battleground" states where voting was close. The Post quotes one of four sources, "a person familiar with the work who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity":
“They looked at everything: change of addresses, illegal immigrants, ballot harvesting, people voting twice, machines being tampered with, ballots that were sent to vacant addresses that were returned and voted, literally anything you could think of. Voter turnout anomalies, date of birth anomalies, whether dead people voted. If there was anything under the sun that could be thought of, they looked at it.”
There were the usual anomalies, irregularities, mistakes common to all elections given the huge numbers involved but these "actually went in both directions”, said one informant. The rare fraud is usually of what we'll call the mom-and-pop variety: pop died a few weeks before the election, mom knew how he would have voted and turned in his ballot.
Berkeley tested a dozen hypotheses that the Trump camp wanted examined but nothing of significance was found nor was there anything that would have changed the outcome in any of the states, even though it would not have taken much to flip the election. Biden won Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania by a combined total of only 77,744 votes. Had those states gone for Trump, 46 of Biden's 306 votes would been switched to the other column to give Trump 272 votes, 2 more than the majority needed to make him president again.
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Berkeley briefed Trump on its findings late in December of 2020 in a conference call. "The call grew contentious" … Click to continue reading
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