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Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis seems to be saying the campaign has lots of evidence of "election official fraud," but they can't show it to us yet. This is just the campaign's opening statement, she says.
Giuliani says our votes are counted in German and Spain by companies affiliated with Maduro and Chavez (who died 7 years ago).
"Did you ever believe that was true?"
It isn't.
"Did you ever believe that was true?"
It isn't.
"There is nobody here who engages in fantasy," Giuliani says, after claiming some kind of conspiracy to rig the election by voting machine manufacturers, Hugo Chavez, antifa and others.
Now we're onto the FBI. "I don't know where they were on the hard drive."
Powell says they have no idea how many Democratic or Republican candidates paid to have elections rigged in their favor. "This is a massive, well-funded coordinated effort" to deprive the people of our rights.
Powell says these secret powers went in and "injected votes" for favored candidates. "Everybody's against us except President Trump."
Questioner helpfully points out that the Trump campaign has requested recounts only in Wisconsin counties that *didn't* use the software they think is fishy.
Giuliani says some cabal has "destroyed the right to vote" in an election in which many more Americans voted than ever before.
Ellis says "your question is fundamentally flawed when you're asking 'Where is the evidence?'" She says the campaign hasn't had a chance to offer evidence in court yet, though it's filed many, many affidavits.
Giuliani says "our cases haven't been dismissed," then yells that a reporter is lying.
The campaign dropped one of its few remaining lawsuits this morning.
The campaign dropped one of its few remaining lawsuits this morning.
Giuliani says they can't make their evidence public. "Our witnesses don't want to be revealed tot he tender mercies of a vicious press."
"We're headed to a very bad place," Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani says, concluding a press conference at which the president's legal team laid out some truly wild conspiracies about rigged U.S. elections and said they would prove them later.
Trump's lawyers say they will prove their claims of a massive election-rigging conspiracy in its various lawsuits, and that we're just not to the evidentiary phase.
But Trump's campaign hasn't actually made these allegations in *any* of the cases it's filed.
But Trump's campaign hasn't actually made these allegations in *any* of the cases it's filed.
And the claim about a Venezuelan/antifa conspiracy to rig election machines isn't in the amended lawsuit Trump's campaign wants permission to file in PA. (And it wasn't in the one they dropped in Michigan, where they say these bad things actually happened.)
Even if Trump's remaining lawsuits go forward -- and that's not something you should bet a lot of money on, given the legal theories at issue -- they won't introduce evidence of these wild conspiracies, because that's not the allegation they made and would then have to prove.
Today, Giuliani claimed that Trump was the victim of a massive election-fraud scheme and he just needed a chance to prove it in court.
Two days ago, he told a federal judge in the case in which he hopes to prove it: "This is not a fraud case."
Two days ago, he told a federal judge in the case in which he hopes to prove it: "This is not a fraud case."
Anyway, this was filed in Trump's Pennsylvania lawsuit today, and it's far-fetched but not as far-fetched as what Trump's lawyers claimed at that press conference.
