Daily US Times: A Donald Trump supporter who donated 2.5 million dollars to help expose and prosecute claims of voter fraud in the presidential election wants his money back after what he says are “disappointing results”.
The North Carolina businessman Fredric Eshelman, who is the founder of Eshelman Ventures llc, a venture capital company, said he gave the money to True the Vote, a pro-Trump “election ethics” group in Texas that promised to file lawsuits in seven battleground states as part of its push to “investigate, litigate, and expose suspected illegal balloting and fraud in the 2020 general election”.
But according to a lawsuit Eshelman filed this week in Houston, True the Vote dropped its legal actions and discontinued its Validate the Vote 2020 campaign, then refused to return Mr Eshelman’s calls when he demanded an explanation.
The Trump supporter said he asked “regularly and repeatedly” for updates, the lawsuit asserts, but that his “requests were consistently met with vague responses, platitudes, and empty promises”.
The lack of success of True the Vote’s efforts to challenge the outcome of the presidential election appears to mirror that of the president himself, whose team has lost 38 court actions since the 3 November election, most recently in the state of Pennsylvania where a federal appeals court panel blasted Trump’s legal team for filing a case with no merit.
True the Vote did not respond on Mr Eshelman’s comments but posted a statement on its website, attributed to the group’s founder and president, Catherine Engelbrecht, seeking to blame outside forces for the failure of its efforts.
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