I Want My Money Back | A GOP Donor Who Gave $2.5 Million for a Voter Fraud Investigation.
He put – I Want My Money Back | A GOP Donor Who Gave $2.5 Million for a Voter Fraud Investigation.
Like many Trump supporters, conservative donor Fred Eshelman awoke the day –
after the presidential election with the suspicion that something wasn’t right.
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His candidate’s apparent lead in key battleground states had evaporated overnight.
The next day, the North Carolina financier and his advisers reached out to –
a small conservative nonprofit group in Texas that was seeking to expose voter fraud.
After a 20-minute talk with the group’s president, their first conversation, Eshelman was sold.
“I’m in for 2,” he told the president of True the Vote, according to court documents and –
interviews with Eshelman and others.
“$200,000?” one of his advisers on the call asked.
“$2 million,” Eshelman responded.
Over the next 12 days, Eshelman came to regret his donation and –
to doubt conspiracy theories of rampant illegal voting, according to court records and interviews.
Now, he wants his money back.
The story behind the Eshelman donation — detailed in previously unreported court filings and –
exclusive interviews with those involved — provides new insights into the frenetic days after the election,
when baseless claims led donors to give hundreds of millions of dollars to reverse President Biden’s victory.
Trump’s campaign and the Republican Party collected $255 million in two months,
saying the money would support legal challenges to an election marred by fraud.
Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress also raised money off those false allegations,
as did pro-Trump lawyers seeking to overturn the election results — and even some of their witnesses.
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