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.