We continue to obtain records that show the Arizona “audit” aimed to undermine faith in the 2020 presidential election. Here’s what we learned from some of the latest records we obtained through litigation. #FoiaFriday
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A May exchange between Arizona Senate President Karen Fann and state Sen. Vince Leach provides yet another piece of evidence that Senate officials undertook the “audit” with predetermined conclusions in mind — specifically, the discovery of (non-existent) widespread fraud.
After Fann sent a text lamenting the lack of support for the “audit” in the media and from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Leach texted, “Ahh, but it will be great when it is shown they both were on the wrong side of the truth.” Fann replied, “Praying.”
From the beginning, those pushing for and setting up the “audit” were involved with people actively seeking to overturn the results. This included Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and even Trump himself, as communications we previously reported reveal.
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It also included Phil Waldron of Allied Security Operations Group, a company that was Fann’s initial choice for lead “audit” contractor.
Waldron was in touch with Trump lawyer John Eastman in February, while Allied Security was still ostensibly in the running for the election review job.
Eastman was in the news last month for his brazen plan, laid out in a memo from January, to get Vice President Pence to not certify the election and initiate a process that he imagined would lead to Trump illegally staying in office.
Learn more about what we’ve uncovered here:
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