Trump-Hired Expert Who Debunked Voter Fraud Allegations Shreds Speaker Johnson’s ‘Election Integrity’ Talk : ‘He Should Know Better’

A software engineer hired by President Donald Trump to investigate voter fraud criticized Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for hyping claims about a rigged election.

On Friday, Trump and Johnson held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, where the speaker traveled to earn the former president’s stamp of approval as he tried to fend off a challenge to his speakership. Johnson said the House will take up legislation on “election integrity,” which is a central issue for Trump ever since he first baselessly claimed the 2020 election was stolen from him.

“I’m going to announce to you today here, standing alongside President Trump, that we will do everything within our power to ensure that we do have free and fair elections in this country,” the speaker said. “If we don’t have that in a constitutional republic, we have nothing.”

Appearing on CNN’s OutFront a few hours later, Ken Block addressed Johnson’s comments. Block was hired by Trump to investigate claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. However, Block said he found no fraud.

Guest host Jim Sciutto aired a November 2020 clip of Johnson claiming that “there was a lot amiss” about the election that had just taken place. Johnson even cited Trump’s bogus allegation that Dominion Voting Systems had rigged the election. “There’s a lot of merit to that,” he said.

“Just not true,” Sciutto reacted. “He went on to say, in that same interview that the problem with every election fraud case is that they are notoriously difficult to prove. So, to you, as someone who debunked each and every election in fraud claim made by the Trump campaign and brought to you, what do you say to speed speaker Johnson now?”

“Speaker Johnson is an attorney and he should know better,” Block said. “He should understand that hearsay evidence, which is what he’s talking about, does not stand up in court. And it should not ever rise to the level that it is right now where we’re impugning our election integrity and our infrastructure based on hearsay, which is what it’s doing.”

Watch above via CNN.