At an event in Phoenix Saturday, the former president asserted several false election fraud claims.
Author: JONATHAN J. COOPER and CALVIN WOODWARD Associated Press
Published: 6:16 PM EDT July 25, 2021
Updated: 6:16 PM EDT July 25, 2021
PHOENIX —
: The video above is from February 2021.
In mid-May, partisan investigators hired by Arizona state lawmakers backed off their allegation that the state's most populous county had destroyed its 2020 election database. Confronted with proof that the data still existed, they admitted everything was there.
Two months later, the tale lives on. At an event Saturday, former President Donald Trump presented the debunked allegation as a key piece of evidence that the state's electoral votes were stolen from him in 2020.