Lou Dobbs on Fox says no proof of election fraud, pushes theory anyway – Business Insider

• Fox Business host Lou Dobbs said Monday that he was unable to find proof of any election fraud claims — but continued to push them anyway.
• Speaking to pro-Trump PAC director Ed Rollins, he openly wondered why “we have had a devil of a time finding actual proof” of election fraud. 
• Rollins said that it was because pro-Trump factions have yet to have their day in court. But 60 out of 61 cases attempting to overturn Biden’s win have failed. 
• Fox Business previously had to walk back election fraud conspiracy claims on Dobbs’ show after a legal threat from voting technology company Smartmatic. 
• Fox Business did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 
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Fox Business host Lou Dobbs complained on his show on Monday that he could not find any proof of his own claims of election fraud — which he went on to falsely perpetuate. 

The commentator was on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” with former Ronald Reagan campaign director and pro-Trump PAC director Ed Rollins, for a segment alleging a vast conspiracy to bring down President Donald Trump.

“Eight weeks from the election and we still don’t have verifiable, tangible support for the crimes that everyone knows were committed,” said Dobbs.

“[…] We know that’s the case in Nevada, we know it’s the case in Pennsylvania and a number of other states, but we have had a devil of a time finding actual proof.”

—Lou Dobbs (@LouDobbs) January 4, 2021

Asked by Dobbs why this is, Rollins claimed that “we haven’t been able to get it before the courts,” and that “No-one’s going to take this case up.”

This is untrue. Pro-Democratic lawyer Marc Elias, whose platform Democratic Docket has been tallying the challenges, reported as of Tuesday that Trump and his allies have made 61 legal challenges to President-elect Joe Biden in state courts and the Supreme Court. All but one were lost.

The pair lamented a lack of support for Trump from the Republican Party and even within the White House, despite the fact that 140 Republicans in the House and 12 in the Senate are supporting moves to challenge Congress when it meets on January 6 to certify the election results. 

Dobbs opened his show — the first of 2021 — by claiming that “an ongoing, substantial and vigorous conspiracy that has spanned more than four years in an effort to block and overthrow President Trump.”

Read more: Trump’s sad implosion is a good sign for Biden’s agenda

He has been one of Trump’s staunchest defenders, and had already had to walk back earlier false claims of election fraud relating to a voting technology company. 

He had claimed inaccurately that Smartmatic company had connections to Dominion, another voting technology company. The claimed association of the two has been central to widespread conspiracy theories about the election.  

But after a legal warning from Smartmatic, Dobbs’ show broadcast a long segment in which his earlier claims about the company were disavowed, according to The Washington Post. 

In Monday’s segment, Dobbs made no mention of the companies, but continued to falsely say that “fraudulent votes” had been cast to hand President-elect Joe Biden a sham victory. 

Fox Business did not immediately respond to Business Insider’s request for comment. 

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