Big Lie bombshell: Man Trump hired to prove election fraud says he debunked it to Trump and Meadows

The ReidOut with Joy Reid

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Joy Reid leads this episode of The ReidOut with former Trump staffers warning the nation that the threat is real and democracy is at stake as we enter this presidential election year. Michael Fanone, one of the heroes of January 6th, joins Joy with more. Also, with two weeks to go before Iowa, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are still treating the front-runner Donald Trump gently, as if they do not really want to win. Plus, Joy talks to a man who was paid by the Trump campaign to find proof of widespread election fraud in 2020. He found none and told them so, he says, adding the allegation that they continued to push the Big Lie anyway. That man, Ken Block, joins The ReidOut. All this and more in this edition of The ReidOut on MSNBC.

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0:00.0	Tonight on the readout.
0:05.0	Fundamentally a second Trump term could mean the end of American democracy as we know it.
0:11.0	He is literally called for things like doing away with parts of the
0:14.1	Constitution, wanting to weaponize the DOJ to enact a revenge on his political
0:18.8	enemies. We're running out of time in order to try to stop Trump from being in the Oval Office again.
0:25.0	Former Trump staffers warn the nation, the threat is real, and democracy is at stake
0:30.4	as we enter this presidential election year.
0:33.0	Michael Fanon, one of the heroes of January 6th, joins me tonight.
0:38.0	Also, two weeks to Iowa and DeSantis and Haley are still treating the front runner Donald Trump
0:44.0	oh so gently as if they don't really want to win.
0:48.0	Plus he was paid by the Trump campaign to find proof of widespread election fraud in 2020.
0:56.4	He found none and told them so.
0:59.3	They continued to push the big lie anyway. Ken Block is my guest tonight.
1:08.1	Good evening everyone and happy new year and I hope you enjoyed your
1:11.2	celebrations. I certainly did.
1:13.0	And we begin tonight having said goodbye and frankly good riddance
1:17.0	to the year of our Lord 2023, which was, to put it mildly, a rough one for the world.
1:22.0	Horrible for children from Ukraine to one for the world.
1:22.5	Horrible for children, from Ukraine to Israel,
1:24.6	to the Congo, to Gaza, deadly for journalists,
1:27.2	and not exactly great for democracy.
1:29.4	So goodbye, 2023, and don't let the door hit you
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