

Project
Truthtellers
A new video series from a conservative perspective telling the truth about the 2020 election.
There’s a massive disinformation campaign that’s making baseless claims about the 2020 election, dividing the American people, and causing many to lose trust in our democratic process. And that’s a big problem for the whole country.
That’s why Issue One launched a new video series telling the truth about the 2020 election, by millennial conservative and “Swamp Stories” podcast host Weston Wamp.
Watch every episode below.
Were Trump's claims of a rigged election properly investigated?
Yes!
When President Trump first claimed that the 2020 election was stolen, millennial conservative and host of the “Swamp Stories” podcast Weston Wamp was suspicious. How did Republicans win congressional seats all across the country — gaining seats in the U.S. House — on the same day that Trump claimed there was rampant fraud by Democrats?
But, still, Trump’s claim of a rigged election deserved to be properly investigated. And here’s the key: it was.
Watch episode 1, “No Basis in Fact or Law”
One of his most loyal allies, Attorney General William Barr, said that the Trump Justice Department uncovered no evidence of fraud at a level that would affect the outcome of an election.
More importantly, in more than 60 court cases filed by the Trump campaign all across the country, there were zero rulings supporting their claims of fraud.
Many of the judges were appointed by Republican presidents. Eight of them were appointed by Trump himself.
Here’s what the Trump-appointed judges said:
The Trump campaign’s claims are “bizarre.” “(Trump) lost on his merits” – Trump appointee Judge Brett Ludwig
Sources: Fox News and USA Today
“Calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here.” – Trump appointee Judge Stephanos Bibas
Source: 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals opinion
Trump’s attorneys “harm the public interest” and their arguments have “no basis in fact or in law” – Trump appointee Steven Grimberg
Source: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
Trump lost on his merits. No specific allegations or proof. No basis in fact or law.
Trump’s own attorney Sidney Powell, who claimed that Dominion Voting machines were manipulated to help Biden, changed her narrative altogether once she faced a lawsuit from the company.
Her attorney actually said that people shouldn’t have been foolish enough to believe her. This was her defense:
“No reasonable person would conclude that the statements were truly statements of fact.” – Attorney for Sidney Powell
Source: Motion filed with U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Were there actually hundreds of thousands of votes for Biden dumped in the middle of the night?
No!
One common question many people still have about the 2020 election: Were there actually hundreds of thousands of votes for Biden dumped in the middle of the night?
The answer is: no.
Watch episode 2, “Overnight Votes”
Most of the ballots counted overnight were absentee. But why were they overwhelmingly for Biden? And why were they being reported in the middle of the night?
Well, President Trump asked his supporters to vote in person, and Biden asked his supporters to vote by mail. According to polling, that’s exactly what they did.
So it makes sense that as the absentee votes rolled, they favored Biden.
But a lot of folks wondered, why were these absentee votes being counted in the middle of the night in the first place?
There’s a straightforward answer here — and a solution for the future.
Take Pennsylvania: there were 10 times the mail in votes in 2020 compared to 2012.
But the Republican state legislature wouldn’t even allow ballots to be prepared for counting until the morning of the election.
And waiting to do that makes counting take longer. But Florida had no delays on election night. That’s because ballots are processed by officials the day they are received.
But not in Pennsylvania, so they had a huge backlog — and one that could have been prevented.
Obviously, we’ve gotta avoid this happening again. In this case, states should simply allow election workers to begin processing ballots when they are received so that the ballots can be counted in a timely manner on Election Day.
Were Democratic election officials complicit in "fraud" in Arizona?
No!
In Arizona, long after the votes were counted — and counted again — by bipartisan election officials, the Republican-led state senate ordered a so-called audit of the 2020 election.
The debate about the results themselves has now gone so far off the rails that we need to break it down, because the facts are actually very clear.
Watch episode 3, “Off the Rails”
Take Maricopa County, Arizona, which is the fourth largest county in the country. Trump and his attorneys have alleged widespread fraud — but they haven’t given any evidence.
Here’s a little-known fact that’s virtually been unreported by the mainstream media that undermines the entire fraud narrative.
Biden won the county with 49.8% to Trump’s 47.7%.
In the high profile Senate race, the results were similar. Democrat Mark Kelly actually outperformed Biden, defeating Republican Senator Martha McSally 50.9% to 47.1%.
On the same exact ballot, the top election official in Maricopa County, Democrat Adrian Fontes, was up for re-election.
We spoke with Fontes:
“The integrity of the Maricopa County election in 2020 is beyond reproach. It was done with a bipartisan team at the highest elected level, including myself and the 4-1 Republican board of supervisors.”
So here’s the catch. Adrian Fontes lost his own re-election campaign on the same day Trump lost.
That means that the entire fraud narrative relies on you believing that Trump lost Maricopa County by two points, Martha McSally lost by almost four points… and on the same day, one of the people who presumably was complicit in the fraud, the Democratic county recorder in Maricopa County, lost his race.
That makes no sense. In reality, Fontes is a public servant. He’s a dedicated election official who simply believes that he lost his election fair and square.
Said Fontes: “I was up on election night, and we lost our lead, and ultimately lost the race. I felt good about the process though because that’s what’s supposed to matter here.”
Whoever thinks we would believe that Democrat Fontes lost on the same day that Trump alleges Democrats pulled off the biggest election fraud ever must think that we’d believe anything.
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