Lou Dobbs, one of President Trump’s biggest supporters in the media, lamented on his show Monday night the lack of evidence surrounding claims of alleged election fraud.
With eight weeks having passed since President-elect Joe Biden won the election, which Trump has still not conceded, Dobbs pointed out that there is has not been any “verifiable” or “tangible” evidence to support the current commander in chief’s claims of election fraud.
“We’re eight weeks from the election, and we still don’t have verifiable, tangible support for the crimes that everyone knows were committed — that is, defrauding other citizens who voted with fraudulent votes,” Dobbs said. “We know that’s the case in Nevada, we know it’s the case in Pennsylvania and a number of other states, but we have had a devil of a time finding actual proof.”
The Fox Business host made the comment during a segment with Ed Rollins, the chairman of the pro-Trump Great America PAC, and added that the election is being “stolen” from Trump. “We don’t have a government that can get to the bottom of fraud that we have all witnessed and we know took place,” he said. “They put their hands under their posteriors and wait.”
Dobbs went on to say, “It’s not OK to put a man in the Oval Office who doesn’t belong there. It is not OK to ignore fraud, it’s not OK in America to have our law enforcement agencies, our national security agencies be both part of that fraud and that effort to overthrow the president for four years and at the same time, deny investigation and enforcement of laws to assure the integrity of our elections,” while Rollins affirmed that Biden will be inaugurated on Jan. 20.
Since the election, the president and many of his supporters have alleged fraud took place and that Trump won the election, however, they have repeatedly failed to provide sufficient evidence of such claims in legal cases across the country. The campaign’s legal team, led by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, has promoted conspiracies and sought a handful of different strategies ranging from attending state legislature hearings in battleground states, to demanding recounts and audits, to urging members of Congress to not certify the Electoral College results. They have not been successful in their ultimate goal of getting Trump a second term in office.
Dobbs, who has repeatedly regurgitated such theories and provided a platform at times for others doing the same, issued a fact-check of many of those claims on his show last month after the threat of a defamation suit was issued.
The segment, which Dobbs did not conduct himself, was an interview with Eddie Perez, the global director of technology development and open standards for the Open Source Election Technology Institute, who answered questions about Smartmatic, an elections technology firm that has been subject to claims of election meddling by Dobbs and others. Smartmatic threatened to sue Fox News and other conservative outlets whom they alleged have allowed such conspiracy theories air without proper context.
