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Posted: 2020-11-11T21:05:17Z | Updated: 2020-11-11T22:37:39Z

Late Tuesday, President Donald Trump s campaign announced a lawsuit focused on irregularities, incompetence, and unlawful vote counting in Detroit, a city that helped President-elect Joe Biden win Michigan and the presidency.

But HuffPosts review of 234 pages of affidavits released by the Trump campaign which White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was waving around on Fox News Monday night found only a mix of routine election issues, complaints about lines of sight and social distancing measures, and an environment supposedly hostile to white Republican poll watchers who seemed ready to treat any and all actions by election workers as nefarious criminal activity.

The day after the election, Trump supporters gathered at TCF Center in Detroit to chant Stop the count and bang on windows as election workers went about their jobs. There was even a bomb threat against the facility. Because all the ballots werent yet counted, Republicans falsely believed that Trump had won Michigan. (Biden now leads in the state by an enormous margin: more than 146,000 votes.)

The mostly white Republican suburbanites who went to watch ballots being counted in Detroit because the Trump campaign had suggested that elections officials in the majority-Black city were engaged in a massive criminal conspiracy to steal the election didnt find any direct evidence of mass voter fraud.

But they did find a lot of suspicious people who werent as welcoming as they thought they should have been. A common complaint in the affidavits was that some people in the room were wearing Black Lives Matter masks and shirts.