Leon Panetta: ‘There Is Absolutely No Evidence that There Has Been Any Fraud’

‘There is absolutely no evidence that there has been any failure of the system to properly count all of those votes’

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PANETTA: “Obviously they’re all operating on the fallacy that somehow what happened on the election did not happen. And I think for — for most people, they understand that after 150 million Americans went to the polls, a record number of people who went to the polls and voted, which was very encouraging, frankly, because the American people, despite all of their polarization and differences, all recognized the importance of their power to vote. And there is — there is absolutely no evidence that there has been any fraud. There is — there is absolutely no evidence that there has been any failure of the system to properly count all of those votes. And so for the president and for the chief of staff, for others, frankly for 100 or more so Republicans to pretend that fact is not fact and that truth is not truth, raises real questions about the ability of our government to function the way it should. I mean, we’ve elected a new president. It’s time to move on. Everybody recognizes that it’s critical for our country to be able to deal with Covid, to be able to deal with a recession, to be able to deal with the challenges we’re facing abroad. We have got to move on. We have got to accept reality. We’ve got to accept truth. And most importantly, we have to accept the reality of how our democracy is supposed to function.”

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