“There is absolutely no evidence of fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election on the scale needed to change the outcome in any state, let alone the nation as a whole,” the report says. The report is signed by retired federal appeals judges Thomas B. Griffith, J. Michael Luttig and Michael W. McConnell, former Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson, former US Senator John Danforth and Gordon H. Smith, longtime Republican election attorney Benjamin L. Ginsburg and veteran Republican Congressional Bureau chief David Hope. Several of them are longtime critics of Trump. “Even now, twenty months after the election, a period in which Trump supporters have been vigorously searching every nook and cranny for evidence that the election was stolen, they are coming up empty. Allegations are made, trumpeted by sympathetic media and accepted as true. by many patriotic Americans, but on objective examination they have fallen short, time after time,” the report states. The report warns that it is “wrong and bad for our country for people to propagate baseless claims that the election of President Biden was not legitimate.” It led to a detailed examination of every case brought by Trump and his supporters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Trump and his supporters alleged fraud, irregularities and procedural deficiencies in their subpoenas. Trump and his allies lost nearly all of the more than 60 cases they brought challenging the results of the 2020 election, the report noted. Twenty were rejected before a hearing on the merits, 14 were withdrawn by Trump and his supporters and 30 included a hearing on the merits, it found. The conservative group argued that Trump and his supporters had “an obligation to recognize that the campaign debate is over.” “Issues of electoral legitimacy must be resolved apathetically in the courts, not through rallies and demonstrations — and most emphatically, not through the exercise of political pressure and threats to induce Congress to ignore its constitutional duty and the electoral outcome for which voted by the people, and which had been examined and confirmed by the legal processes of the affected states,” the report states. The group urged “conservative colleagues to stop obsessing over the results of the 2020 election and focus on presenting candidates and ideas that offer a positive vision to overcome our current difficulties and bring greater peace, prosperity and freedom to the nation us”. The Jan. 6 panel has held seven public hearings so far, presenting testimony from Trump campaign and administration officials that there was no evidence of voter fraud and that Trump ignored warnings that his plan to overturn the election was illegal. The hearings also detail Trump’s pressure campaign at various levels of government and his efforts to enlist the Justice Department in his efforts.
