A Trump supporter who gave $2.5m in a bid to help expose and prosecute claims of voter fraud in the presidential election now wants his money back, per reports by the Guardian and Bloomberg.
Fredric Eshelman, a North Carolina businessman who is the co-founder of Eshelman Ventures LLC, said he gave the money to True the Vote, a pro-Trump "election ethics" group promising to file lawsuits in seven key swing states in a bid to “investigate, litigate, and expose suspected illegal balloting and fraud in the 2020 general election”.
Watch as Anderson Cooper stuns viewers with brutal insult of Donald Trump:However, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Houston federal court and cited by Bloomberg, Eshelman says that after “regularly and repeatedly" asking for updates on the project his “requests were consistently met with vague responses, platitudes, and empty promises.”
Per Bloomberg, True the Vote filed four lawsuits in the weeks subsequent to the election but dropped all of them last week.
“While we stand by the voters’ testimony that was brought forth, barriers to advancing our arguments, coupled with constraints on time, made it necessary for us to pursue a different path,” the group said in a statement on its website.
“Our mission is much bigger than just one election. It is about repairing the system for all future elections.”
Despite the repeated claims of voter fraud made by President Trump and his supporters, no evidence has been forthcoming of widespread problems, Bloomberg notes.
Indeed, yesterday it was reported that a Trump-ordered recount of votes in Wisconsin's largest country actually culminated in president-elect Joe Biden gaining votes.
According to the Associated Press, Milwaukee County concluded its recount of presidential ballots on Friday, finding only small changes in totals for one of the two counties that were recounting ballots.
Per AP, president-elect Joe Biden's total lead increased by 132 votes after county election officials recounted in excess of 450,000 votes.
The Trump campaign had demanded recounts in two of Wisconsin's counties, according to the Guardian, after the incumbent president lost Wisconsin to Joe Biden by more than 20,000 votes.
It's believed that the two recounts will cost the Trump campaign $3m.
George Christenson, the Milwaukee county clerk, said after the recount had concluded, "The recount demonstrates what we already know: that elections in Milwaukee county are fair, transparent, accurate and secure."
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