Daily News | Fact-checking Bill McSwain’s campaign ads and statements as he runs for Pennsylvania governor
prosecutors secured 669 indictments — a 40% increase over the prior year’s 470.filed during McSwain’s two-and-a-half-year tenure matches the last three years of his predecessor. Part of that can be blamed on the pandemic, which temporarily halted the federal grand jury process.“On Election Day and afterward, our office received various allegations of voter fraud and election irregularities. As part of my responsibilities as U.S.
The claim that has caused the biggest waves among his former colleagues in Philadelphia and Washington is McSwain’s repeated allegation that heHe first made that charge in his letter to Trump, which the former president shared publicly last summer, falsely claiming the letter said McSwain was barred from investigating.
McSwain has repeated his claims since, while repeatedly dodging requests for specifics and questions over whether anything he saw as U.S. attorney would cause him to question the legitimacy of PresidentSeveral of his former prosecutors, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss investigations that did not lead to charges, said the U.S. Attorney’s Office uncovered no evidence of significant election improprieties.Bill McSwain tried to walk a political tightrope on Trump’s election lies.
With no case in Philadelphia supporting Trump’s false fraud claims, McSwain pitched the idea of holding a news conference in late 2020. He planned to add his voice to the chorus of GOP complaints about how Pennsylvania had administered its election, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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