Revealed: Trump secretly donated $1m to discredited Arizona election ‘audit’

Funding for controversial review of state's vote count in 2020 election can be traced to former president's Pac

One of the enduring mysteries surrounding the chaotic attempts to overturn Donald Trump's defeat in the 2020 presidential battle has been solved: who made a secret $1m donation to the controversial election audit" in Arizona?

The identity of one of the largest benefactors behind the discredited review of Arizona's vote count has been shrouded in secrecy. Now the Guardian can reveal that the person who partially bankrolled the failed attempt to prove that the election was stolen from Trump was ... Trump.