Man, you gotta love a really good conspiracy theory. A good one is a wild swing for the fences. Like a massive, mind-boggling claim that is so crazy is has to be true.
Like, for example, the claim that 42,000 people in Nevada voted more than once.
I mean,that's wild. That's out there. That is a big swing. 42,000 people! That's almost 10% of the population of Las Vegas.
Of course, the Trump campaign took that claim as evidence to state courts to stop the certification of the Nevada vote. Which, if true, would be a great reason to stop the whole process because 42,000 people! That's just nuts.
Guess what happened when the judge asked for the lawyer for the Trump campaign to provide evidence of those 42,000 people voting twice.
Go on. Just guess. What do you think that lawyer for the Trump campaign did?
Did you guess refuse to provide any evidence of 42,000 people voting twice? You'd be wrong. They did. It was a report generated by he Republican National Committee's chief data officer, Jesse Kamzol.
When the court examined this report, they concluded that Kamzol did not provide the origins of the data, the process by which he matched the names, or even verification of the data. The judge concluded, and I quote, "the record does not support a finding that any Nevada voter voted twice."
What do you call a claim that lacks proof of any kind?
A lie.
He lied.
The claim that 42,000 people in Nevada voted twice is a lie.