Daily News | Bill Barr on ‘rubbish’ Philly fraud claims, Al Schmidt recalls threats: More Pa. highlights at Jan. 6 hearings
— a Republican In Name Only — and “a disaster” for failing to uncover “massive election fraud and irregularities that took place in Philadelphia.”
Schmidt has been a vocal defender of the legitimacy of elections since the 2020 vote and has broken with his party on numerous occasions to call out Trump’s false claims of fraud.calling the behavior of some Trump supporters “very deranged.” “There were so many of these allegations that when you’d give him a very direct answer on one of them, he wouldn’t fight us on it, but he’d move on to another,” said Richard Donoghue, who served as acting attorney general after Barr’s resignation.and GOP lawmakers in the state“That was absolutely rubbish,” he told committee investigators. “The turnout in Philadelphia was absolutely in line with the rest of Pennsylvania. … There was nothing strange about the Philadelphia turnout.
Donoghue referenced claims by Jesse Richard Morgan, a York County U.S. Postal Service contractor, who said after the election that he’d been tasked with driving a truck full of completed mail ballots from New York to Pennsylvania. But in the end, Donoghue said in the deposition clips played Monday, “we looked at both ends — both the people who loaded the truck and the people who unloaded the truck — and that allegation was not supported by the evidence.”Philadelphia prosecutors have said Morgan’s story was part of what motivated a Virginia man to drive hundreds of miles in November 2020 to the Pennsylvania Convention Center in a Hummer emblazoned with QAnon stickers and loaded with guns.
At the time of that encounter, Macias was out on bail from his earlier weapons charges in Philadelphia. On Monday, District Attorney Larry Krasner, cited the video in urging the judge in Macias’ case to hold him in contempt of court for violating his bail conditions.
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