Trump election fraud claims knocked down by Pennsylvania judge
Lawyer Rudy Giuliani was at pains to say it wasn’t actually fraud being claimed, but that ‘ballots could have been from Mickey Mouse’
18 November 2020 - 17:58
New York — US President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani described at length to a federal judge in Pennsylvania a vast but vague Democratic conspiracy to steal the election that justified the invalidation of hundreds of thousands of votes — enough to flip the state from president-elect Joe Biden to Trump.
But US district judge Matthew Brann cut straight to the heart of the matter, wondering aloud why it would be reasonable to throw out so many valid ballots — Giuliani at one point said 1.5-million would have to go — based on allegations that some votes were merely counted improperly...
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