Bret Baier says he will 'continue to present the facts' after fact-checking Trump’s voter fraud claims

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Fox News’s Bret Baier fact-checked former President Donald Trump on Monday, going one-by-one through a list of election fraud claims Trump made in a statement released on Friday about his loss in Arizona.

“The former president points to a third-party audit presented to the Arizona state senate showing 168,000 ballots were printed on illegal paper. An elections official in Maricopa County says it uses paper approved by Dominion Voting Systems, which makes the tabulation equipment,” Baier said, later adding, “Former President Trump says 74,000 mail-in ballots were received that were never mailed. That claim appears to be based on data that does not show the total mail-in vote. It does not reflect the total early vote either, something acknowledged by the third-party audit itself.”

Baier went on to address Trump’s claims about voter rolls, election servers, and a long-debunked allegation about access logs.

Video Transcript

BRET BAIER: Former President Trump claims the election server was hacked during the election. Maricopa County says its election server is not connected to the internet, and independent auditors found no evidence of a breach there.

- On "Special Report" with Bret Baier Monday, Baier fact-checked former President Trump, who released a long and rambling statement on Friday in which he once again made false claims of voter fraud in Arizona. In the statement, Trump specifically named Baier, who was anchoring for Fox when they called Arizona for Biden.

BRET BAIER: The former president points to a third-party audit presented to the Arizona state senate, saying 168,000 ballots were printed on illegal paper. An elections official in Maricopa County says it uses paper approved by Dominion Voting Systems, which makes the tabulation equipment.

- Baier also addressed a narrative that Trump parroted in his statement, claiming that 74,000 mail-in ballots "magically appeared."

BRET BAIER: Former President Trump says 74,000 mail-in ballots were received that were never mailed. That claim appears to be based on data that does not show the total mail-in vote and does not reflect the total early vote either, something acknowledged by the third-party audit itself.

- Baier went through all of Trump's claims, including one that would make it appear as though Trump won Arizona, as he lost the state by less than 11,000 votes.

BRET BAIER: The former president says 11,000 voters were added to the rolls after the election and still voted. Again, Maricopa County officials say provisional votes go through a rigorous verification process to ensure validity. They say only eligible voters were added to the rolls.

- Baier fact-checked Trump just two days after he had to defend his coverage of the Arizona audit on Twitter, where one viewer called for him to be fired.

BRET BAIER: We here on "Special Report" will continue to monitor the investigation, the action or lack of action by the Arizona State Legislature. And we will continue to present the facts as they stand day to day.