Donald Trump continued his baseless claims about election fraud with a statement about the GOP-commissioned audit of results in Maricopa County, Ariz. "The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!" his statement said.
Arizona Auditor: Did Not Backtrack on Election Database Deletion Allegation
A forensic auditor helping conduct an audit of 2020 election machines in Arizona’s largest county disputed on May 20 reports claiming he backtracked on allegations that files were deleted from one of the machines.
“My testimony on May 19th before the AZ Senate is being taken out of context by some media outlets. To confirm: the ‘Databases’ directory on the EMS Primary Server WAS deleted containing the voting databases. I was able to recover the deleted databases through forensic data recovery processes,” Ben Cotton, founder of CyFIR, said in a statement emailed to The Epoch Times by the audit’s liaison.
PolitiFact s ruling: False
Here s why: On May 15, 6½ months after losing the presidential election to Joe Biden, Donald Trump continued his baseless claims about election fraud with a statement about the GOP-commissioned audit of results in Maricopa County, Ariz. The entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED! the statement said.
Trump called the alleged deletion illegal, then went on to make several other claims of election crime and presidential election fraud.
Trump’s statement didn’t describe the database he referred to, and his office did not reply to our requests for information to support his claim.
There is no evidence that an entire database from the 2020 election in Maricopa County was illegally deleted. In fact, one of the firms doing an audit of the election essentially walked back its initial claim of the database being deleted.
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PHOENIX â The Arizona Department of Public Safety has confirmed that it is investigating after a suspicious package was found Wednesday afternoon at the Arizona Senate building in downtown Phoenix.
DPS Public Information Officer Bart Graves said in an email that DPS received a call on Wednesday regarding a suspicious package. The DPS Hazardous Materials Response Unit secured the unknown package and sent it to the DPS Crime Lab.
Graves did not release any details about what the package was, where it was found, nor what substance may have been found inside the package.
Mike Philipsen, director of communications for the Arizona State Senate, said in an email Thursday that on Wednesday afternoon an assistant in President Fann s office opened a letter addressed to the President. A small amount of substance was observed from the mailing.
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