California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Saturday denied assertions of voter fraud in the state’s primary elections, dismissing unfounded accusations by President Donald Trump of “big cheating.”
Bonta said in an interview on MS NOW’s “The Weekend” that there is no basis for the election fraud investigations in Los Angeles that federal prosecutor Bill Essayli said his office is conducting.
“There are no details, there is no specifics, there is no specific allegation of any individualized act of voter fraud,” Bonta said. “And every count, recount, hand count, court case and audit has shown time and time again — not just in California, but throughout this country — that there is no widespread voter fraud.”
Bonta said claims of voter fraud are “only a figment of the imagination of Trump and others who follow that conspiracy theory.”
Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney for the Central District of California and a Trump appointee, announced Friday that his office is working with the FBI on “multiple election fraud investigations.” He said he was coordinating with Harmeet Dhillon, Trump’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, on an audit of California’s voter rolls, citing the state’s lack of a voter ID rule.
Essayli’s announcement came one day after Trump declared without evidence that there was “BIG cheating” by Democrats in California, citing the state’s well-known slow ballot counting process.