The man Trump 'hired to find fraudulent votes' torches stolen election claims

Ken Block, the man who was hired by Donald Trump's campaign to investigate voter fraud claims, torched the former president's "stolen elections" conspiracy theory in a column published by AZ Central on Thursday.

Block, whose company Simpatico Software Systems was contracted by Trump in November 2020 to investigate assorted voter fraud claims and who described himself in the column as "the man the Trump campaign hired to find those fraudulent votes," dismissed claims by both Trump and failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake as "easily proven as false," and he said his own research proved it.

In addition to finding just roughly a dozen likely fraudulent votes cast in Arizona, Block also found that the biggest reason for Trump's loss was deterioration in many Republican Arizona counties where he had previously dominated in 2016.

"Another astonishing and undeniable trend emerged when I compared the 2016 and 2020 election results," he argued. "In most of Arizona’s counties, Trump’s share of the vote declined in 2020 relative to 2016. That includes what I define as red counties because Trump won there in 2016 and 2020. A majority of Arizona’s 10 red counties saw a drop in Trump’s vote share in 2020."

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Block noted that he isn't alone in making this observation, as one of Trump's internal pollsters made the case as well.

"Trump’s pollster, Tony Fabrizio, documented this loss of moderate GOP support in a December 2020 report detailing exit polling results across the swing states commissioned by the Trump campaign," he wrote.

Block concluded his column by chiding right-wing media for ignoring the very obvious evidence showing Trump legitimately lost in 2020 for fear of upsetting their readers.

"Conservatives mainly get their news from conservative media," he contended. "Coverage of my story about working for the Trump campaign and the subpoenas I have received garnered mention in just one conservative outlet for an entire year. Facts are only helpful if people are made aware of them."