During today’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeatedly deflected from a direct question about Donald Trump’s claims that scores of ballots were found discarded in a river.
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Fox News Radio’s John Decker repeatedly asked McEnany to specify the river Trump referred to in Tuesday’s debate when he said about mail-in ballots, “There’s fraud. They found them in creeks.”
Going off script because the answer wasn’t in her binder, McEnany claimed, “It’s a fact!” that ballots were found in rivers or creeks, along with saying ballots were found in a roadside ditch in Pennsylvania and that military ballots were found in a wastebasket in Wisconsin.
Those claims are untrue. Nine military ballots were found in a wastebasket at a mail processing site in Pennsylvania, not Wisconsin. They were recovered and sent to appropriate election officials, proving that the system works.
There is no record of ballots being found in a Pennsylvania ditch.