Jeremy Herb and Marshall Cohen for CNN:

Ticktin, 80, is, in his words, a boyhood “best friend” of Trump’s from boarding school at the New York Military Academy. Now a lawyer based in Florida — with a colorful clientele that has included a member of the Backstreet Boys and Meghan Markle’s estranged half-sister — Ticktin has become a prominent 2020 election denier. He’s frequently pushed unproven conspiracies and represented leading figures in the movement, including Peters, former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, and many of the convicted US Capitol rioters from January 6, 2021.

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In a wide-ranging interview with CNN, Ticktin insisted that evidence proving claims about the 2020 election would become public soon, asserting that Venezuela, China, Iran and others are all involved and that evidence would emerge from the Trump administration’s capture and indictment of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.

“With the evidence that we’ve got, and with the evidence that would be forthcoming, that there’ll be no question about it — and what these machines did,” Ticktin said. “It’s a surreptitious overtaking of a country.”

Six years after the intensely scrutinized 2020 election, such evidence has never surfaced publicly, even as Trump and allies like Ticktin have continued to claim Trump’s loss to Joe Biden was not legitimate.