Donald Trump clung to his 'suitcases full of ballots' lie for years, but as stevebenen writes, Georgia’s state board of elections has now formally rejected the lie as 'false and unsubstantiated.'
, state officials have now officially closed the book on one of the most notorious Republican claims.
To be sure, these are not exactly new revelations. Nevertheless, officials on Georgia’s state board of elections yesterday took the formal step of closing the case altogether. In the immediate aftermath of his election defeat, Trump said election workers in Atlanta corrupted the vote tallies by taking improper ballots from suitcases. The claims were immediately discredited, not just by independent journalists, but also by his own Justice Department. Asseveral months ago, former acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue told the outgoing president directly that the matter had been reviewed by federal law enforcement and the accusations were baseless.
Trump, in other words, was told the truth, which he rejected. Worse, the Republican turned his lies into attacks that put innocent election workers in danger: Trump and some of his rabid followers decided that Shaye Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, who had taken a temp job helping count ballots, were directly and personally responsible for including fake ballots in Georgia’s election tally.
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