Fox News personality Steve Doocy pushed back during a live broadcast Friday against unfounded claims about software President Trump alleges to have cost him thousands of votes.
The “Fox & Friends” co-host addressed reports about Dominion Voting Systems and its election software in light of his colleague Brian Kilmeade asking related questions during the morning program.
Mr. Trump, arguably the show’s best-known fan, has been making baseless claims about Dominion, including Twitter posts Thursday alleging the company deleted or “switched” millions of votes.
The president has also shared a video on Twitter from a Fox News broadcast the night before in which conservative commentator Sean Hannity raised questions about Dominion Voting Systems as well.
“I looked into it,” Mr. Doocy said Friday morning. “With that Dominion software, five counties in Michigan and Georgia had problems. And the Dominion software was used in two of the counties, and in every instance largely it was human error, a problem, but the software did not affect the vote counts.”
Mr. Doocy appeared to be citing a report article published by The New York Times earlier this week that aimed to address misinformation spreading about Dominion Voting Systems.
The president has since continued to attack the company in a series of subsequent Twitter posts Friday, baselessly claiming the company was complicit in what he repeatedly called a “rigged” election.
Dominion has categorically denied baseless allegations made by the president about its software since his defeat, and federal agencies have called the election the “most secure ever.”
Claims made by Mr. Trump about Dominion software purportedly causing millions of votes to be deleted or switched are “completely false,” the company said in a statement on its website Friday.
Twitter has flagged Mr. Trump’s posts about Dominion, and others, for including disputed information.
Multiple news outlets project Mr. Trump lost his race for reelection to Democratic rival Joseph R. Biden. The president has not conceded, however.
• Andrew Blake can be reached at ablake@washingtontimes.com.
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