Arizona election audit: GOP official defends office against Trump conspiracy theory

Arizona election audit: GOP official defends office against Trump conspiracy theory

“At some point, we are humans, it has to stop,” Stephen Richer, the Maricopa County recorder, told CNN’s Erin Burnett on “OutFront.”

“There are good people working here in Maricopa County, and I was tired of them being defamed,” he said. “That’s my team. That’s my office. That’s my friends.”

His comments come after Trump on Saturday falsely claimed in a statement that the “entire Database of Maricopa County in Arizona has been DELETED!” Richter responded by calling the claim “unhinged” on Twitter.

“I’m literally looking at our voter registration database on my other screen. Right now,” he…

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