Donald Trump had also alleged that there were significant breaches of voter integrity in Philadelphia. As William Barr said under oath during the House of Representatives Select Committee hearings:

“The president had repeatedly suggested that there was some kind of outpouring of unexpected votes in inner city areas like Philadelphia…He said more people voted in Philadelphia than there were voters. That was absolute rubbish. The turnout in Philadelphia was in line with the State’s turnout and in fact, and in fact was not as impressive as many suburban counties and in fact there was nothing strange about the Philadelphia turnout.”

Barr even commented that Trump was the weak element in the Republican ticket, thus leading to the conclusion that there was no fraud in the presidential election.  Needless to say, Trump did not like that comment.

Trump made numerous claims of fraudulent in Philadelphia including claims that dead people were voting. Giuliani had said 8,000 dead people had voted in Pennsylvania. He said, with a snicker, it was easier for dead people to vote by mail in ballot than in person. Trump fans ate this stuff up. But they were not true. Mr. Al Schmidt was the Republican representative on the election oversight commission in Pennsylvania  and investigated these claims.  Schmidt testified under oath this way at the Committee hearing:

“Not only was there no evidence of 8,000 dead voters voting in Pennsylvania there were not even 8. We took seriously every case that was referred to us, no matter how fantastical and how absurd, we took every one seriously, including these.”

As the former White House lawyer for Trump, Eric Herschmann, said about Giuliani who had made those allegations on Trump’s behalf , “they never proved the allegations they were making.”

Trump and Giuliani continued to make such claims but never produced any significant evidence. It was all bogus, but that fakery continues to haunt the current election 4 years later.  It takes a long time to get rid of the taint of lies.

It is easy to spread lies on the internet.  Under oath, under penalty of perjury charges,  people tend to tell the truth.  That is where the truth about Trump usually comes out.