Trump friendly Cyber Ninjas audit of Arizona votes still shows Biden

A draft report of the Republican-backed review of 2020 election results in Arizona’s largest county — which critics derided as a shambolic stunt aimed to further vote-rigging conspiracies peddled by former President Donald Trump — has in fact confirmed the winners, the county said.

The much-delayed report from Cyber Ninjas, a Florida-based firm whose owner had spread pro-Trump conspiracies, had been repeatedly hyped up by Trump himself.

But the draft “confirms the county’s canvass of the 2020 General Election was accurate and the candidates certified as the winners did, in fact, win,” Maricopa County’s official account tweeted Thursday night.

“Unfortunately, the report is also littered with errors & faulty conclusions about how Maricopa County conducted the 2020 General Election,” the county tweeted.

Rather than finding that Trump defeated President Joe Biden in the competitive swing state’s most populous county, Cyber Ninjas tallied 99 additional votes for Biden and 261 fewer votes for Trump than previously counted, according to The New York Times, which obtained a copy of the draft.

“That should be the end of the story. Everything else is just noise,” Jack Sellers, chair of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, said in a statement.

“But I’m sure it won’t be,” he added, predicting that his board will be accused in the report of failing to cooperate with Cyber Ninjas. “How could we cooperate with an inquiry that was led by people who have no idea how to run any election, let alone one in the second largest voting district in the United States?”

Trump, in a statement Friday morning, claimed the media was misrepresenting Cyber Ninjas’ findings, saying, “I have heard it is far different” than what has been reported.

He asserted the firm uncovered “undeniable evidence” of fraud, despite admitting he had yet to see the report himself, and demanded an investigation by the attorney general.

Biden beat Trump by more than 45,000 votes in Maricopa, according to NBC News’ count. Biden beat Trump in the state overall by around 10,000 votes. County officials in Arizona who conducted hand-count audits in the days after the Nov. 3 election found no discrepancies or irregularities in numerous counties.

Cyber Ninjas’ draft report is set to be publicly unveiled Friday at 4 p.m. ET by the Arizona Senate Republicans who commissioned the firm despite it having no election-auditing experience.

House Democrats on Thursday called on Cyber Ninjas’ CEO, Doug Logan, to testify at a hearing on Oct. 7, following his “repeated refusal” to comply with their investigation of the…