President Donald Trump has called on the federal government to "nationalize the voting" across the United States, baselessly claiming that major cities in swing states are conducting fraudulent elections. But one expert who Trump once hired to find proof of voter fraud says it's almost nonexistent.
In a Wednesday interview on CNN, data specialist Ken Block said Trump's rationale to have the federal government assume control of elections didn't hold water. He also said the Trump administration's recent raid of an election facility in Fulton County, Georgia harkened back to his prior work with the Trump 2020 campaign.
"The Trump campaign in 2020 hired me to look for evidence of voter fraud. And they asked me to review about 20 different claims of voter fraud that came into the campaign from everywhere around the world," Block said. "Apparently, every one of the 20 claims they asked me to evaluate, I was able to show that they were false. And we did find small amounts of voter fraud, but never did we find enough voter fraud to have been able to change the outcome of any of the swing state elections in 2020."
Block went on to say that despite Trump's insistence that there was election fraud in Georgia in 2020, no evidence has ever surfaced proving him correct. He reminded viewers that some Trump associates – like former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani — were never able to substantiate any of their claims in court when asked to prove supposed fraud in the Peach State.
"We've had individuals do data analytics claiming to have found fraud. And in legislative hearings, they were humiliated when legislators asked questions and were able to show that the analyses were false," he said. "There's been nothing but allegations that I've been able to see so far, and nothing that's borne any fruit. I wonder when we're going to move on from this."
CNN host Boris Sanchez noted that in Block's new book, "Disproven," he recounted that he reported his findings debunking Trump's election fraud claims to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. Block said he was never able to confirm if Meadows actually told Trump that his claims were proven wrong by his own hired expert.
"I don't know if Meadows communicated my findings into the Oval Office. A second company was also hired at the same time. Mine was to look for evidence of voter fraud. They had the misfortune of going into the oval office to communicate their findings directly," he said. "And those findings were that they could not find any evidence of voter fraud."
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