Trump Election Fraud Claims Disappear in Pennsylvania Court
- Judge questions how tossing valid votes could be justified
- State attempting to get Trump campaign lawsuit dismissed
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President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani described at length to a federal judge in Pennsylvania a vast but vague Democratic conspiracy to steal the election that justified the invalidation of hundreds of thousands of votes -- enough to flip the state from President-elect Joe Biden to Trump.
But U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann cut straight to the heart of the matter, wondering aloud why it would be reasonable to throw out so many valid ballots -- Giuliani at one point said 1.5 million would have to go -- based on allegations that some votes were merely counted improperly.