When Trump was defeated in the 2020 presidential election he said he had been cheated of victory. He then made multiple fraud claims which several sources have debunked. But the most brutal debunking of Trump’s fraud claims has recently emerged and interestingly by Republicans. This article published by The Washington Post is written by Aaron Blake. Here is an excerpt:

The Republican Party’s response to former president Donald Trump and his allies’ wild, baseless claims of voter fraud has been anything but courageous. It’s been entirely clear most reputable members of the GOP are uncomfortable responding, often instead lodging watered-down or adjacent claims. Some Republicans have spoken out but generally only when forced to pick a side — such as when their state became the focus of Trump’s lies.

But when the rubber has met the road, GOP lawmakers have routinely landed on one side: against Trump’s claims.

Perhaps the starkest example of that came Wednesday, from a Republican-led state Senate committee in Michigan. A report from the Oversight Committee makes little mention of Trump, instead focusing on claims made by allies or general conspiracy theories about the vote count in Michigan. But the committee was brutal in statements on those claims, just about all of which can be traced to Trump in one way or another.

Read the full article here.