The Trump campaign in December of 2020 shelled out an unknown sum – but probably a lot of fucking money judging by their website – to an outside firm to find evidence the election had been stolen from him and then buried it when they came up empty, the Washington Post reports.
The Berkeley Research Group put more than a dozen researchers, including econometricians, on the project only to come up completely empty. “They looked at everything: change of addresses, illegal immigrants, ballot harvesting, people voting twice, machines being tampered with, ballots that were sent to vacant addresses that were returned and voted. Literally anything you could think of. Voter turnout anomalies, date of birth anomalies, whether dead people voted. If there was anything under the sun that could be thought of, they looked at it,” said a source at the firm.
“None of these were significant enough. Just like any election, there are always errors, omissions and irregularities. It was nowhere close enough to what they wanted to prove, and it actually went in both directions,” another source said. The Post report describes a call that grew “contentious” when the researchers presented their findings to Donald and Mark Meadows in December.