Trump campaign paid researchers to prove fraud, kept results secret

The campaign paid researchers from Berkeley Research Group, the people said, to study 2020 election results in six states, looking for fraud and irregularities to highlight in public and in the courts. The work was carried out in the final weeks of 2020, before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot of Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol. Trump continues to falsely assert that the…