Trump Campaign Memo Reveals They Knew Voting Machine Claims Were Lies, Held Press Event Anyway

The New York Times reports:

Two weeks after the 2020 election, a team of lawyers closely allied with Donald J. Trump held a widely watched news conference at the Republican Party’s headquarters in Washington. At the event, they laid out a bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that a voting machine company had worked with an election software firm, the financier George Soros and Venezuela to steal the presidential contest from Mr. Trump.

But there was a problem for the Trump team, according to court documents released on Monday evening. By the time the news conference occurred on Nov. 19, Mr. Trump’s campaign had already prepared an internal memo on many of the outlandish claims about the company, Dominion Voting Systems, and the separate software company, Smartmatic. The memo had determined that those allegations were untrue.

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Breaking NYT: Trump’s campaign knew days after the 2020 election that wild claims about voting machine tampering were not true, court filings show.https://t.co/ZhonYwmpqL

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 21, 2021