“I have eight affidavits,” he announced, which impressed some members of the campaign team. If he really did have eight witnesses to election misconduct, they thought, then maybe they had something. But Giuliani was blowing smoke. Later that day, he and some of the campaign advisers went to the White House to meet with Trump. While waiting in the Roosevelt Room, Giuliani restated his claim, only this time he declared, “I have twenty-seven affidavits.” Matt Morgan, who had served as Mike Pence’s lawyer and was now general counsel to the Trump campaign, was stunned. He had been with Giuliani the
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