After last week’s January 6 hearing, in which the committee investigating the attack laid out its most comprehensive case against Donald Trump, the former president released a lengthy response full of recycled disinformation and unverified – and unverifiable – claims.
With a majority of Republicans in this year’s midterms denying or questioning the results of the 2020 election that Trump lost, it’s clear that the GOP has built a core part of its ideology around misleading, inaccurate and outright false assertions. The Guardian decided to fact check each of Trump’s claims in the appendix of his document. What is noticeably absent are any mentions of Dominion, the voting machine manufacturer that filed a $1.7bn lawsuit against Fox for “intentionally and falsely” blaming the company for Donald Trump’s loss.
Here’s what we found.
Maricopa County accepted at least 20,000 mail-in ballots after Election Day 2020, including 18,000 on November 4, 2020, picked up from the U.S. Postal Service – more than the entire Election margin of 10,457 ballots.
This disinformation comes from a screenshot of a receipt that allegedly shows late ballots being accepted by the Maricopa county elections department. However, as Megan Gilbertson, communications director of the Maricopa elections department, told Reuters, “All of those envelopes were received by the elections department prior to the 7pm statutory deadline.” The receipt shows a document recording the transfer of ballots to a...
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