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12 Jul, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Donald Trump has worked for months to undermine faith in the 2020 election results in Arizona. Now, Trump will appear at a rally in Phoenix around the same time results of the Arizona Senate’s partisan “audit” are expected to be released.
ktar.com/story/4556139/…
Records we obtained show that in December, as Donald Trump and his lawyers worked to overturn the results of the election, Senate President Karen Fann told a constituent that Trump had personally called her to thank her “for pushing to prove any fraud.”
americanoversight.org/arizona-senate…
Fann also said that she’d had numerous conversations with Rudy Giuliani in the weeks since the November election. Fann told the constituent that she had “the full support of him [Giuliani] and a personal call from President Trump thanking us for pushing to prove any fraud.” Image
Trump’s planned appearance at the Phoenix rally is yet another indicator of the obvious partisanship of the sham “audit.”
americanoversight.org/news-roundup-w…
It’s clear that any “findings” of the process will be dubious at best, given the operation’s partisan origins, its reliance on outlandish conspiracy theories, its alarming lack of transparency, and the inexperienced and biased contractors running it.
We’ve been investigating the process in Maricopa County. Learn more about our ongoing investigation here:
americanoversight.org/investigation/…

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The only thing this sham audit has going for it right now is its secrecy — the more that’s uncovered, the clearer it is that it was never designed with the public interest in mind.
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