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Donald Trump held a press conference on Friday to discuss prescription drug prices, but the moment also included him falsely claiming “he won” the 2020 election while accusing Moderna and Pfizer of working to stop his re-election efforts. The two pharmaceutical companies announced their coronavirus vaccines were 90 per cent or more effective against the novel virus following the election.
The press conference was actually not a press conference because the president took no questions. His decision not to take questions potentially came after White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany held her press briefing since 1 October on Friday.
Ms McEnany, who defended Mr Trump’s refusal to concede the election, was heckled by one reporter during the briefing over her inability to accept the election results. She also entered into a verbal spat with a CNN reporter, whom she called an “activist”, after refusing to answer more questions.
This comes after Mr Trump was told to to move aside by Republican senator Lamar Alexander, who said on Friday that the US president should allow the transition to a Biden administration to take place after more than two weeks of delay. Sources close to the president suggested that his refusal to concede was, in part, an act of revenge on Democrats who investigated Russian interference in his 2016 win over Hillary Clinton.
And later in the day it was confirmed that the president’s son, Don Jr, had tested positive for coronavirus and was quarantining.
Show and tell time at the Giuliani presser
Giuliani is now showing an envelope and how the opening of an envelope works after calling Joe Biden a “crook”.
The room full of media is standing by for the evidence promised moments ago.
Giuliani is now outlining their evidence, which includes ‘My Cousin Vinny’
The first example being cited by Giuliani is Republican observers begin denied access – that has been alleged previously.
The second example is inequal treatment of curing ballots in Democrat versus Republican leaning counties – this has been alleged previously.
The third example is 15,000 people in Pittsburgh given provisional ballots after discovering they’d already cast mail-in ballots – this has been alleged previously.
“That is what we call circumstantial evidence of the fraud, the direct evidence of the fraud are the people who will testify that in fact that’s what happened to them. As well as the 50 to 60 witnesses that we have for the way they were treated and were not allowed to inspect the ballots,” Giuliani said.
He is now telling a story from the movie My Cousin Vinny to illustrate the point.
Jessie Jacob, an employee of the City of Detroit, is star witness who says she was told to adjust dates on mail in ballots
Giuliani said she was “trained to cheat” by Detroit and the state of Michigan.
“I was instructed by my supervisor to address the mail in date of these absentee ballot packages to be dated earlier than when they were actually sent in, the supervisor made that announcement for all workers to engage in that fraudulent practice,” she said in the affidavit.
“I witnessed election workers and employees going over to the voting booth with voters in order to watch them vote and coach them for whom to vote.”
Giuliani read out the passage from the affidavit at the press conference.
“Maybe you can say she’s lying, but you can’t say there’s no evidence, this is what we call evidence. This is direct evidence, not circumstantial,” he said.
Witness was instructed not to ask for identification or check signatures, she claims
Jessie Jacob said in the affidavit said she was instructed not to ask for identification to confirm identities, to invalidate any ballots, not to look for any deficiency in the ballots, and not to look for any signatures on the absentee ballots.
“I observed a large number of people who came to the satellite location to vote in person but they had already applied for and submitted an absentee ballot,” she said in the affidavit.
Jessie Jacob says she was told to back date ballots
She said in the affidavit that on 4 November 4, she was instructed to improperly predate the absentee ballots when the receipt date was after 3 November 3.
Giuliani says this is some of their most significant evidence.
“Because Justice Alito of the Supreme Court instructed Pennsylvania that any ballot that comes in after 8pm on November 3rd 2020 had to be put aside and not opened as there’s a question as to its legality, and its constitutionality… they blatantly disregarded that order,” he said.
Giuliani says they have 220 affidavits in Michigan
He said 60 swear a truck pulling up to the Detroit centre at 4.30am where they were counting ballots.
"The people thought it was food so they all ran to the truck. It wasn’t food, it was thousands and thousands of ballots,” Giuliani says.
“Every ballot that they could see, everything that they could hear, these were ballots for Biden. When they saw ballot, these were ballots only for Biden. Meaning they were only down-ticket. Just Biden.”
Two Republican poll watchers and an employee of Dominion (more on that later) estimated there to be 60,000 to 100,000, and that they were triple counted – put into the counting machines three time, Giuliani said that their affidavits swore to.
Giuliani says Wayne County has 100 affidavits
And that they allege improper counting, counting 3 to 4 times, voting 3 to 4 times, changing and backdating ballots.
He alleges that they’ve identified 300,000 questionable ballots in that county.
Giuliani says 100,000 absentee ballots In Wisconsin don’t have application
“60,000 ballots in Milwaukee and 40,000 in Madison that as far as we can tell… that don’t have applications. Under the law of the State of Wisconsin, already decided, if there’s no application for the absentee ballot, the absentee ballot is thrown away,” Giuliani says.
Trump ponied up the $3m to pay for the recount in Wisconsin, so the campaign will either sink or swim on whether these claims stands up or not.
Watch: Rudy Giuliani reenacts ‘My Cousin Vinny’
Still have some popcorn left?
Election fraud a communist plot to turn the country into Venezuela, Giuliani says
“You know we use largely a Venezuelan voting machine, in essence, to count our vote, we let this happen we’re going to become Venezuela, we cannot let this happen to us,” he said
He is referring to the Dominion voting system, more on this shortly.
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