‘Proof is Utterly Lacking’: Expert Hired By Trump to Prove Voter Fraud Guts Him for Lying About Election

Voter data expert Ken Block trashed Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 election by explaining how he found no supporting evidence when the former president’s campaign hired him to investigate voter fraud.

Block joined Morning Joe on Thursday to talk about Disproven, his upcoming memoir on how he and his software company were paid to look for voter fraud and prove Trump’s claims that the election was corrupted. Block recently published a column explaining how he told former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that his investigation found no evidence of fraud large enough to have changed the election outcome.

As Trump keeps on claiming the election was fraudulent, Block told Willie Geist about how the Trump campaign tasked him with determining the veracity of claims about dead voters, duplicate voters, and others.

“Every single claim that I looked at,” Block said, “I was able to prove they were false claims and not true.”

Block continued to recall how some of the claims he was told to investigate were “really bonkers,” most were easy to prove, true or false. While commenting that there were ways to improve election infrastructure, he stressed that “the necessary improvements that we need to make are not responsible for anything I’ve seen so far for massive fraud that can change the outcome of an election.”

So it is a nuanced answer that I give you, and what I ask everybody who is paying attention and has worries or believes the election was stolen, is you have to take a step back. You have to rely on facts, and you can’t convict somebody based on hearsay. You can’t change the course of an election because you think something bad might have happened. You have to be able to have ironclad proof that it has happened, and that proof is utterly lacking from every one of the claims that I’ve looked at attached to the 2020 election.

Block concluded by expressing his certainty that his findings were shown to the Oval Office “because Mark Meadows certainly knew.”

Watch above via MSNBC.

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