Former Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt asserted that there was no merit to former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani's claim that thousands of ballots were cast on behalf of dead voters in Pennsylvania.
Schmidt, testifying before the Jan. 6 select committee on Monday, asserted that the board looked into every referred case of alleged fraud “no matter how fantastical" and found no evidence backing up Giuliani’s allegation that there were 8,000 fraudulent mail-in ballots despite former President Donald Trump and several of his surrogates continuing to claim otherwise.“Not only was there not evidence of 8,000 dead voters voting in Pennsylvania, there wasn’t evidence of eight,” Schmidt said.
Schmidt went on to detail the threats he and his family faced after Trump attacked him by name on Twitter, alleging he was a “Republican in name only” and accusing him of refusing “to look at a mountain of corruption & dishonesty” despite evidence to the contrary. Pics of some of the threats Al Schmidt received after being name checked by Trump. pic.twitter.com/oFeMXBUPgg"On some level, it feels almost silly to talk about a tweet, but we can really see the impact that they have. Because prior to that [tweet], the threats were pretty general in nature,” he said.
“After the president tweeted at me by name, calling me out the way that he did, the threats became much more specific, much more graphic. And included not just me by name, but included members of my family by name, their ages, our address, pictures of our home."In addition to hearing from Schmidt, the panel also heard testimony from former Fox News Political Editor Chris Stirewalt, election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg, and former U.S.