WND Wouldn’t Fact-Check Trump’s Bogus Claims Of Election Fraud

Bob Unruh began a Jan. 4 WorldNetDaily article with a lie:

Evidence long has been in the public domain for some of the undue influences that undoubtedly affected the results of the 2020 presidential election.

For instance, Mark Zuckerberg handed out $400 million plus to various elections officials who largely used it to recruit fans of Joe Biden.

As we’ve pointed out every time Unruh spouts this lie, there’s no evidence that any Zuckerberg money was used to specifically “recruit fans of Joe Biden,” let alone was “largely” used for that purpose. Unruh eventually got to the point of his article:

Now a report from the Liberty Daily cites a summary of “election fraud” used in the 2020 race.

Pages and pages.

And pages.

“President Donald Trump dropped a summary of the massive, widespread voter fraud that took place in swing states in 2020 in preparation to not only defend himself in court, but to expose the truths that have plagued our nation for three years,” the report explained.

Among the details:

1. A “large” number of ballots sneaked into the vote counting center in Michgan “with no chain of custody in the middle of the night.”
2. 289,866 absentee ballots identified as sent to people who never requested them.
3. Officials in Detroit who blocked access for Republican poll watchers, and covered the windows to the room, so that the ballots were counted “in secret.”
4. Months after the Pennsylvania results were final, there were 121,240 more votes than voters.
5. and more.

But Unruh won’t tell you what actual fact-checkers said about the document:

Trump shared the unsigned document on Truth Social, declaring it “fully verified.”

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: It’s not.

Trump lawyers cited Trump’s post in a federal court document arguing Trump has immunity from prosecution in the federal election interference case. The report details dozens of claims about the 2020 election from Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Some allegations overlap with falsehoods previously debunked by PolitiFact or other fact-checkers. The report misleads about how election officials count ballots and arrive at final results.

“Nowhere is there a smoking gun, conclusive evidence that there was fraud or illegal ballots cast for Joe Biden,” said Justin Grimmer, a Stanford University political science professor who researches elections. “Instead, the report relies upon innuendo, implication and poor data analysis to reach a conclusion about fraudulent votes being cast when the evidence supposedly supporting that conclusion simply cannot justify that conclusion.”

Needless to say, Unruh couldn’t be bothered to do any fact-checking of his own — he’s a pro-Trump stenographer, after all, not any kind of real reporter. Instead, he touted that “The Liberty Daily expressed thanks to online commentator KanekoaTheGreat for the social media postings with the details.”