Fox News host Bret Baier fact-checks Trump’s election fraud claims: ‘We will continue to present the facts’ – By Stephen Proctor (Yahoo) / July 20 2021
On Special Report With Bret Baier Monday, Baier responded to a statement former President Donald Trump released on Friday, in which he singled out Baier, who was anchoring for Fox News when the network called Arizona for President Biden. In the statement, Trump made several baseless claims of election fraud in Arizona, all of which Baier fact-checked.
“The former president points to a third-party audit presented to the Arizona state senate showing 168,000 ballots were printed on illegal paper. An elections official in Maricopa County says it uses paper approved by Dominion Voting Systems, which makes the tabulation equipment,” Baier said, later adding, “Former President Trump says 74,000 mail-in ballots were received that were never mailed. That claim appears to be based on data that does not show the total mail-in vote. It does not reflect the total early vote either, something acknowledged by the third-party audit itself.”
Baier broke down all of Trump’s claims looking for fraud where there was none, including one that would make it appear as though Trump barely won Arizona, a state he lost by 10,457 votes.
“The former president says 11,000 voters were added to the rolls after the election and still voted,” Baier said. “Again, Maricopa County says provisional votes go through a rigorous verification process to ensure validity. They say only eligible voters were added to the rolls.”
