Trump campaign paid researchers to prove 2020 fraud but kept findings secret [View all]

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Source: Washington Post

Former president Trump's 2020 campaign commissioned an outside research firm in a bid to prove electoral fraud claims but never released the findings because the firm disputed many of his theories and could not offer any proof that he was the rightful winner of the election, according to four people familiar with the matter.

The campaign paid researchers from Berkeley Research Group, the people said, to study 2020 election results in six states, looking for fraud and irregularities to highlight in public and in the courts. Among the areas examined were voter machine malfunctions, instances of dead people voting and any evidence that could help Trump show he won, the people said. None of the findings were presented to the public or in court.

About a dozen people at the firm worked on the report, including econometricians, who use statistics to model and predict outcomes, the people said. The work was carried out in the final weeks of 2020, before the Jan. 6 riot of Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol.

Trump continues to falsely assert that the 2020 election was stolen despite abundant evidence to the contrary, much of which had been provided to him or was publicly available before the Capitol assault. The Trump campaign's commissioning of its own report to study the then-president's fraud claims has not been previously reported.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/11/trump-campaign-report-electoral-fraud/

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A related story from Feb 2021:

https://www.reuters.com/article/lawyer-trump-spend/trump-campaigns-post-election-legal-spending-topped-7m-with-kasowitz-in-the-lead-idUSL1N2K8025

The Trump campaign paid law firms and other legal providers more than $7 million from Nov. 4 through the end of last year, a Reuters analysis of Federal Election Commission records shows.

Kasowitz Benson Torres, home of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s former longtime personal lawyer Marc Kasowitz, was the top-paid firm in that period, receiving about $1.6 million, according to FEC records released Sunday. East Bay Dispute & Advisory LLC, an affiliate of litigation consulting firm Berkeley Research Group, was the second-highest paid provider at over $620,000.