In court reports and interviews conducted by the Post, donor Fred Eshelman shows to get his millions back from True the Vote, a group in Texas that promised to expose voter fraud.
Eshelman, who was not familiar with True the Vote before election day, according to the newspaper, ‘thought of the variety of possibilities surrounding voting fraud’.
“There’s been noise around cities like Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta and Philadelphia.” He added: “I wanted to determine if it was legal. Can we find a real smoking weapon?”
The right to vote in the election was finally decided, the newspaper reported, asking Eshelman to demand that his money be returned. After the organization offered to return only $ 1 million, Eshelman filed two lawsuits.
While his federal case has since been withdrawn, the other case is pending in a Texas court, the Post said. Both lawsuits allege that True the Vote did not spend its donations as it claimed.
The organization pushed back the claim in court documents reviewed by the newspaper, claiming that Eshelman’s money had been used properly. A lawyer for the group, James Bopp, also told the Post that Eshelman did not set any conditions for his donation.
Up to this point, Eshelman has not received any of his money back, the Post reports, citing court documents.
The trajectory of True the Vote’s efforts reflects that of the Trump campaign’s legal team, which sought to reverse Biden’s victory through a stream of lawsuits that were completely rejected or withdrawn.
Eshelman told the Post he still thinks there was a ‘misconduct’ in the presidential election.
“But I believe it might have risen to some extent that would have changed the election result?” he said. “I do not know.”