Back in May, we learned that a Trump-commissioned report found there was no proof of widespread election fraud that could have affected the 2020 results. That means former President Donald Trump knew he legitimately lost the election. And now we find that a second firm Trump's campaign quietly commissioned to study election fraud claims found no irregularities.

Ken Block, the founder of the firm Simpatico Software Systems, was recently questioned by the Justice Department about his work disproving the claims.

Via The Washington Post:

Ken Block, founder of the firm Simpatico Software Systems, studied more than a dozen voter fraud theories and allegations for Trump's campaign in late 2020 and found they were "all false," he said in an interview with The Washington Post.

"No substantive voter fraud was uncovered in my investigations looking for it, nor was I able to confirm any of the outside claims of voter fraud that I was asked to look at," he said. "Every fraud claim I was asked to investigate was false."

Block said he recently received a subpoena from special counsel Jack Smith's office and met with federal prosecutors in Washington, but he declined to discuss his interactions with them. Block said he contemporaneously sent his findings disputing fraud claims in writing to the Trump campaign in late 2020.

The Trump campaign forked over a lot of money to uncover voter fraud even though it was disproven by the other company.

Prosecutors have obtained extensive information about Block's efforts, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an ongoing investigation.

Federal records show the Trump 2020 campaign paid Block's firm more than $750,000 in six payments. The first, for $390,000, came three days after the election, records show, and the final payment came around Thanksgiving of that year. The payments were labeled "Recount."

Trump knew. His campaign knew. They all knew he lost the election, but they continued propagating a dangerous lie that led to the Jan. 6 attack on our Capitol.