Republican Attorney General Killed Report Showing Trump's Election Fraud Claims Were False
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Former Republican Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich hid a report showing that Donald Trump's "election fraud" claims in Arizona were completely without merit. Brnovich had originally, in November 2020, dismissed Trump's claims, then revamped them while he was running for Senate, then trashed them again after he lost that race. But his decision to kill this report cost the state millions of dollars as they paid for an audit they all knew was bogus, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.
*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. More information about Arizona's 2020 ballot. Issues came to light this week when the Washington Post revealed that then Attorney General Markovich of Arizona from 2020 to 2022 when he ran for Senate and failed to get the, uh, primary votes. But he commissioned a report where his office spent more than 10,000 hours investigating Donald Trump's claims of voter fraud in the state of Arizona. This was separate from the Cyber Ninja's ballot audit. This was separate from the original recount and the reg regular signature verification. The Attorney General's office under Markovic's guidance spent 10,000 hours looking into all these claims of voter fraud cuz by God we're gonna prove it. And the report concluded and said all of these claims that have been made are unfounded. None of them can be verified. The voter fraud didn't happen. So the big question is, why are we just finding out about this report this week? Well, the answer to that of course is because when this original report was finished in, uh, the spring of 2022, mark Barnovich, who at the time was running for Senate, didn't want the country to know that his office had determined that Donald Trump was a big fat liar. So he buried the report and refused to allow it to be released. But he has now been replaced by a Democrat as the Attorney General of the state of Arizona. And this week that Attorney General decided, you know what, I'm gonna release all of this information that apparently had been buried by my predecessor because this seems rather relevant to what has happened in our state over the last few years, including, of course, the fact that you still have Carrie Lake out there trying to challenge the 2022 election results. So good on the new Attorney General good on the Washington Post for putting this out there. But beov it's decision to bury this report. I'm sorry, but that oughta come with some criminal penalties because the state of Arizona at the time when Beov it's office had already concluded none of this fraud was real. They had still, or in the, were in the process of still spending millions of dollars to investigate the 2020 election, had Beic come out, put an end to it, released his report, you would've saved the state money. So as far as I'm concerned, the day that you had this information, any expenses the state incurred beyond that date to investigate 2020, you should be on the hook for that personally and should have to repay it out of your own pocket. Cuz you could have put an into it But you chose not to because you thought it was gonna hurt your already slim chances of winning a seat in the Senate. And by the way, as I mentioned, BEOV did not win the primary. And here's where things get even scarier. Beov in November of 2020 after the election, uh, said, uh uh, there was no evidence of election fraud. Then when he decided to run for Senate, he started to be a little bit of an election denier and said, uh, you know, he said, it's frustrating cuz we all know what happened in the election in 2020. That's what he told a conservative radio host. But then after he lost the primary, he said, uh, you know, all the election deniers are clowns conducting a giant grift. And virtually all allegations had been deemed unfounded. So he flip-flopped back and forth like there was no fraud.