Michael Shermer on 2020 Election Steal: Denies

The claim: The 2020 US presidential election was stolen from Trump.

2021-06-05: “There’s still no evidence of a massive conspiracy to rob the presidential election from former President Donald Trump.” source
2022-11-11: “We saw this on January 6, 2021, when believers in QAnon and the Big Lie conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump marched on the Capitol to overthrow the government.” source
2022-11-11: “This book offers a tool kit of questions to ask and criteria to consider when encountering any conspiracy theory, and then applies those tools to the biggest ones today: JFK, 9/11 Trutherism, Obama birtherism, QAnon, Pizzagate, the rigged elections of 2016 and 2020, UFOs and UAPs, and so forth” source
2023-09-20: “when attorney general Bill Barr, life-long Republican, voted for Trump, appointed by Trump, said "you know what, we looked into it and we just couldn't find anything" – and he would have been motivated to find something – that's the end of the story for me.” source
2026-04-18: “In the case of the 2020 rigged election conspiracy theory, what convinced me was that Attorney General Bill Barr—a lifelong Republican, someone who voted for Trump twice—said, as head of the Department of Justice, we’re going to look into this.” source