Liberal Forum

"The defendant and his co-conspirators also demonstrated their deliberate disregard for the truth—and thus their knowledge of falsity—when they repeatedly changed the numbers in their baseless fraud allegations from day to day. At trial, the Government will introduce several instances of this pattern, in which the defendant and conspirators' lies were proved by the fact that they made up figures from whole cloth. One example concerns the defendant and conspirators' claims about non-citizen voters in Arizona. The conspirators started with the allegation that 36,000 non-citizens voted in Arizona; 55 five days later, it was “beyond credulity that a few hundred thousand didn't vote” ; three weeks later, “the bare minimum [was] 40 or 50,000. The reality is about 250,000"; days after that, the assertion was 32,000; and ultimately, the conspirators landed back where they started, at 36,000—a false figure that they never verified or corroborated."

He just pulled random numbers out of his *** and ALL the MAGA morons ate 'em up like manna from heaven.