Republican election lawyer Ben Ginsberg said no 2020 fraud cases brought by the Trump campaign had legal merit. Ginsburg, who was central to the 2000 presidential election recount in Florida, made the comments during the January 6th committee hearing.

The focus of the second hearing was to show that Trump knew his election fraud claims were false yet still tried to maintain power.

The Washington Examiner reports:

“I’ve looked into more than 60 [suits] including more than 180 accounts, and the simple fact is that the Trump campaign did not make its case,” Ginsberg told Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), who led his questioning.

“More than half of those cases that you mentioned were dismissed [in] the procedural stage for a lack of standing and proper people didn’t bring the case,” he continued, after she gave an overview of the 61 out of 62 election fraud cases that failed.

Lofgren concluded her questioning by calling the lawsuits abuses of the judicial system.

“As we’ve just heard from perhaps the most preeminent Republican election lawyer in recent history, the Trump campaign’s unprecedented effort to overturn its election in court was a deeply damaging abuse of the judicial process,” she said. “This was a coup in search of a legal theory.”

Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien was supposed to be another star witness on Monday but was unable to attend due to an emergency.