Jeffrey Rodack wrote in a May 7 Newsmax article:
Former President Donald Trump ripped into Michigan and Wisconsin for not investigating what he claimed was a late vote dump in both states for Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
His comments came Friday on his new online platform he set up to communicate with his followers. While blasting the two states, he also referred the 2020 presidential election as “fraudulent.”
Writing “From The Desk of Donald J. Trump,” he said: “At 6:31 in the morning on November 4th, a dump of 149,772 votes came in to the State of Michigan. Biden received 96% of those votes and the State miraculously went to him. Has the Michigan State Senate started their review of the Fraudulent Presidential Election of 2020 yet, or are they about to start? If not, they should be run out of office. Likewise, at 3:42 in the morning, a dump of 143,379 votes came in to the state of Wisconsin, also miraculously, given to Biden. Where did these “votes” come from? Both were State Election changing events, and that is on top of the other corruption without even including the fact that neither state got Legislative approval, which is required under the United States Constitution.”
What Rodack didn’t report: Trump is wrong. As was reported months ago, the purported “vote dump” in Wisconsin was simply the recording of votes in heavily Democratic Milwaukee County. The Michigan “vote dump” claim is similarly old and bogus; the number comes from old metadata that was later corrected in the vote verification process.
Newsmax is again privileging false claims by pro-Trump activists (and Trump himself), just as it did with attacks on election-tech company Dominion — which, of course, Newsmax has had to walk back to settle defamation lawsuits. You’d think that would have taught Newsmax to tell both sides of the story.