Expert Ken Block learned that the information first appeared in a post on a website called TheDonald.win, where it was discovered by the owner of an IT company and the information was shared with the general manager of President Trump's golf course. attracted the attention of Bronx.
Golf executives sent the information to the president's son Eric, who passed it on to his lawyer. Attorney Alex Cannon finally directed Bullock on Wisconsin's wild claims. Bullock is a software engineer and former Rhode Island elected official who was hired by the campaign shortly after the 2020 election.
“I think the analysis is fundamentally flawed,” Block told Cannon hours later in an email dated Dec. 4, 2020, and seen by The Washington Post. The hundreds of thousands of votes that were allegedly double-counted “didn't happen.”
“They had incomplete data, didn't realize it, and assumed the only logical explanation was fraud rather than incomplete data,” he wrote in an email.
Block describes that moment in his new book, Disproven, which will be released on Tuesday. In his book, Bullock writes that in the months after the November 2020 election, he was repeatedly tasked with dispelling the Trump campaign's wildly inaccurate allegations that Joe Biden won the election by fraud. He also revealed that he had received it.
Block's book explores the desperate measures taken by the Trump campaign to pursue allegations of voter fraud, even as the president continued to infuriate his supporters by claiming the election was stolen. It provides insider testimony about how quickly it concluded allegations of voter fraud internally.
Mr. Cannon declined to comment. President Trump's press secretary did not respond to a request for comment.
In his book, Bullock describes how the number of claims made against him “snowballed” in the weeks after the election, and within a day, Bullock demanded verification or disproof. It is said that he was often exposed to
“Initially, the request said, 'Please verify this claim,'” he wrote. “In the end, the request became, 'Please tell me why this claim is false.'”
In a recent interview, Bullock said he investigated more than a dozen complaints from the Trump campaign, none of which were substantiated. Some are rejected within minutes, while others require extensive investigation. He ultimately paid about $800,000 for his own work, which he said was not disclosed at the time because it did not help Trump.
Invoices reviewed by the Post showed his work was extensive. This includes analyzing more than 21 million voter records, examining voter data from five swing states, examining nursing home voting patterns in Pennsylvania, comparing voter registration to the Social Security Death Index, and identifying the names of deceased people. This included looking for cases that may have been voted on. .
More work was done by another specialist company. More than $1 million was paid. The results were also not made public, although they were not proven to be fraudulent, the Post reported.
In his book, Block describes how he was contacted by Cannon in the days after the 2020 election based on his ownership of a company called Simpatico Software Systems and his past work investigating voting issues. is explained. President Trump establishes White House committee To investigate possible fraud in the 2017 federal election.
Bullock said he requested advance payment for his work because Trump famously did not pay his contractors. His camp agreed, he wrote. Bullock said he never spoke directly to Trump about his research, but said he heard election officials brief him on some of his findings.
Bullock's book describes how, before Biden took office, he was at the center of repeated covert efforts to overturn the election. This was a haphazard operation that often enlisted seemingly random people to work together to discover fraud.
At one point, the Trump campaign sent Bullock a list of people who had died in Pennsylvania compiled by a funeral home owner, according to the email, and Bullock said, “From online obituaries from local funeral homes. I created this list.” But Block wrote that after reviewing the data, he found no evidence of fraud.
On another occasion, Mr. Block wrote that he was given an affidavit proving fraud by a mathematics professor at Williams College in Massachusetts, but that after reviewing the claims he found them to be false. Again, he informed the campaign.
He was given an 11-page report compiled by Trump campaign aides called the Voter Integrity Project, which was also intended to show fraud, according to emails reviewed by the Post. All of it was overwhelming and misleading, he said.
“If the question is, is this a game changer? It's not,” he wrote in an email to Cannon at the time.
At another point, Mr. Bullock wrote that he was given information about votes cast in the names of deceased people in Arizona, shortly before Mr. Trump's lawyers included that data in a motion filed with the court. There was no proper investigation into the allegations, he wrote.
“When I shared my findings with the campaign, my response was, 'Please don't allow this.'” [analysis] To go out,” he writes. No lawsuit was filed, he wrote.
Despite his efforts to push back on the dubious claims; Bullock said he often sees Trump's lawsuits, television interviews and press conferences raise other allegations that he did not confirm and believed could be easily disproved.
“There was a memorable meeting in which one of the claims attached to the Pennsylvania lawsuit was proven wrong. The conference call was attended by 30 people who had a strong interest in moving this forward.” he said. “They just hung up.''
“I was surprised,” Block said. How many campaign staff were also skeptical of Mr. Trump's claims? Cannon appeared to be under “tremendous pressure”.
He grouped Cannon with other campaign lawyers who were trying to conduct “due diligence” on the claims, while another group of lawyers led by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said they believed the fraud claims were true. He doesn't seem concerned about whether or not. “They just wanted to denounce the election results by filing a lawsuit that they knew was false,” he said.
A spokesperson for Mr. Giuliani did not respond to a request for comment.
Mr. Bullock wrote that he received the subpoena as part of an investigation by Special Counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani T. Willis, who are pursuing a criminal case against Mr. Trump after the election. They allege that the former president conducted an unfair trial in order to overturn the election. At issue in both cases is whether Mr. Trump knew his claims about voter fraud were false. Although Bullock has filed documents and met with investigators, he said he does not know whether he will be called to testify at trial.
Bullock wrote in his book that he was disturbed to see so many Republicans, including in his home state of Rhode Island, embrace Trump's false claims. And this year, he said, he fears more allegations will be made by Mr. Trump and those who follow him.
“It's important to understand why the claims of fraud were not only false, but demonstrably false. There's a false story that the election was stolen,” he said in an interview. “The election was not stolen, we can prove it.”
