This is a reading of the December 22nd, 2022 final report from the select committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the United

States Capitol.

Chapter 4 Just Call it Corrupt and Leave the rest to me.

4.1. The DOJ found no significant evidence of fraud.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr knew there would be trouble before all the votes had been

counted.

So right out of the box on election night, the president claimed that there was major fraud

underway, Barr explained. I mean, this happened, as far as I could tell, before

there was actually any potential of looking at evidence.

President Trump was quick to claim, there was major fraud based solely on the phenomenon known as

the Red Mirage.

As explained elsewhere in this report, Democrats were more inclined to vote via mail-in

ballot during the 2020 presidential election than Republicans who were more likely to vote

in person on election day.

This was widely known and partly a result of President Trump's own public statements,

criticizing mail-in balloting.

It also created a gap in the timing of how votes were

tallied. The early vote tally favored Republicans on election night because the

mail-in ballots, which skewed toward Democrats, were not yet fully counted.

This occurred not just in 2020, but also in previous elections.

The President knew of this phenomenon, but exploited it on election night nonetheless, as he and his allies had planned to do.

President Trump exploited this timing gap and used it as the basis for this broad claim that there was major fraud,

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