Bill McSwain was caught trying to fool Donald Trump and the people of Pennsylvania — now he’s being called out.
PENNSYLVANIA — Bill McSwain’s cascade of lies is being called out once again — this time by the Editorial Board of the Philadelphia Tribune. As the Editorial Board writes, “McSwain is trying to have it both ways,” trying to fool Donald Trump to get his endorsement, and trying to fool Pennsylvanians into thinking he would do his job.
Pennsylvanians deserve better, and as the Tribune writes, McSwain “must tell voters where he stands on the 2020 presidential election.”
In case you missed it, read the editorial below:
Philadelphia Tribune [EDITORIAL]: Bill McSwain can’t dodge the truth of the 2020 election
By Philadelphia Tribune Editorial Board, 07/27/21
Bill McSwain is considering running to be the next governor of Pennsylvania.
He says he will make his decision by early fall.
But first the former U.S. attorney and gubernatorial hopeful must tell voters where he stands on the 2020 presidential election.
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However, McSwain is trying to have it both ways. He says he sought to investigate election fraud in Pennsylvania after the election, but downplays the need for an election audit now.
McSwain said he was forbidden by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate voter fraud in the presidential election.
Barr says that McSwain’s claims are false.
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McSwain, appointed by Trump and still serving as U.S. attorney in Eastern Pennsylvania in November, announced two weeks before the election all the extensive efforts his office made to guard against voter fraud. Is McSwain now saying his office failed in those efforts?
Also, why didn’t McSwain take any legal action then and now alleging voter fraud? Instead McSwain has told a local conservative talk show host that an election audit of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania would be an expensive misuse of time and that it’s time to move on and focus on the 2022 and 2024 elections, according to a report by Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Chris Brennan.
As the top federal law enforcement official in eastern Pennsylvania, McSwain would be duty-bound to pursue an election audit if he believed there was serious evidence of voter irregularities despite the time and cost of the probe.
McSwain can’t have it both ways. He can either support Trump’s lies on the election or clearly state there was no election fraud in Pennsylvania.