When a group of pro-Trump activists in Wisconsin claimed they had uncovered evidence of more than 700,000 cases of voter fraud — which, if true, would have made it the most extreme case of voter fraud in American history — Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign "treated it with the utmost urgency, in a mix of high farce and low comedy that became the hallmark of the MAGA movement’s fraud fever after the election."
That's according to Rolling Stone's Adam Rawnsley, who interviewed Republican elections expert Ken Block for his latest piece. Block said that the pro-Trump activists "took their proof to the manager of a Trump golf course, who forwarded that proof to Eric Trump, who delivered it to the [Trump campaign] lawyer I reported to, Alex Cannon."
“[It] was insane that a claim like that rose to the level it did. I’m sure it found its way to the Oval Office before it found its way to me."
In his new book “Disproven,” where he recounts his time trying to help Trump find evidence of voter fraud, Block delves into what he didn't find — any reliable evidence for MAGA world's claims of mass voter fraud.
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Block's inability to find what Trump was looking for sparked the attention of special counsel Jack Smith, who issued a subpoena to have Block turn over his findings and correspondences with the Trump campaign.
According to Rawnsley, Block "stood in stark contrast to many of the conspiracy-addled staffers working for the Trump campaign in late 2020 as it sought to undo the election. But the number of consultants with expertise in the arcane, complex, and varying world of voter data was quite small, and Block was one of the few who could work at that level."
In his interview with Rolling Stone, Block told Rawnsley that Cannon and other lawyers "wanted to do their due diligence correctly and in a way that would stand up in a court of law."
"One of the first things [Cannon] told me was that he was going to isolate me from political pressures so that I could do my job thoroughly and independently. Because of his actions, I was not leaned on by anybody who wanted to dictate a specific outcome to me.”
Read the full article over at Rolling Stone.
