Pence team put together a 10-page memo on election fraud claims, but couldn't verify Trump's 'Big Lie,' report says. - MaddowBlog
In the days before the Electoral College certification, then-Vice President Mike Pence’s legal team laid out that they found most of the Trump campaign’s assertions of election fraud minor or unverifiable, according to a previously unseen memo obtained by POLITICO.... The National Archives and Records Administration provided the memo to the select committee, according to a person familiar with the document.
Politico’s report, which has not been independently verified by MSNBC or NBC News, added that members of Team Pence were concerned about the allegations of election irregularities, but they couldn’t find evidence to substantiate them. In a 10-page memo prepared by the then-vice president’s aides and lawyers, Team Pence concluded that the fraud claims espoused by Trump and his allies weren’t persuasive. After expressing concerns about Covid-era “procedural violations” in the administration of elections, the memo added that the fraud allegations “cannot be verified.”
Or put another way, as Trump demanded that everyone believe his conspiracy theories, members of Team Pence didn’t — not because they were pleased with the election results, but because they couldn’t find evidence to bolster the outlandish claims. This is notable in part because of the degree to which it adds to a larger picture. As regular readers know, Trump’s
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