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\n In Peter Ticktin\u2019s world, there always seems to be a conspiracy or cover-up lurking.\n <\/p>

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\n The 2020 election? Ticktin claims multiple countries interfered to steal it from President Donald Trump.\n <\/p>\n

\n The criminal case against Tina Peters, the former Colorado clerk who was freed from prison last month? Ticktin insists his client was the victim of Democratic election officials concealing their own supposed crimes.\n <\/p>\n

\n And the upcoming midterm elections? Ticktin says a plot is afoot for Democrats to steal enough congressional seats to impeach and remove Trump and Vice President JD Vance from office, so that House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries can ascend to the presidency from the speakership.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ticktin, 80, is, in his words, a boyhood \u201cbest friend\u201d of Trump\u2019s from boarding school at the New York Military Academy. Now a lawyer based in Florida \u2014 with a colorful clientele that has included a member of the Backstreet Boys and Meghan Markle\u2019s estranged half-sister \u2014 Ticktin has become a prominent 2020 election denier. He\u2019s 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.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ticktin represented Trump in civil litigation and joined Peters in the Oval Office last week for a meeting with Trump following her release, though a White House official downplayed their relationship. But amid Trump\u2019s repeated frustrations that Congress can\u2019t pass the SAVE America Act to enact strict voter ID restrictions, Ticktin is one of a number of Trump allies pushing him to go even further with an executive order to effectively seize federal control of the upcoming midterms by declaring a national emergency based on alleged foreign interference through electronic voting machines.\n <\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s a scenario that state election officials and election law experts say would plunge the country into a constitutional crisis. The US Constitution clearly gives power over elections to the states and Congress \u2014 but not the president.\n <\/p>\n

\n 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\u2019s capture and indictment of Venezuelan leader Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWith the evidence that we\u2019ve got, and with the evidence that would be forthcoming, that there\u2019ll be no question about it \u2014 and what these machines did,\u201d Ticktin said. \u201cIt\u2019s a surreptitious overtaking of a country.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n 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\u2019s loss to Joe Biden was not legitimate.\n <\/p>\n

\n A US intelligence assessment from 2021 found that a number of countries, including Russia, China, Iran and Venezuela, tried to influence the 2020 election \u2014 some to help Trump, some to hurt Trump, and others just to sow chaos. But importantly, US intelligence concluded that no country \u201cattempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n Hovering in Trump\u2019s orbit\n<\/h2>\n

\n Ticktin is cagey when asked where his information is coming from inside the Trump administration or who he\u2019s engaging with. He says he speaks to Trump a few times a year and has an open line of communication that dates back to his representing the president in an ill-fated lawsuit against Hillary Clinton while Trump was out of office. He also says he\u2019s in contact with officials at the Justice Department \u2014 and he even floated himself in right-wing media as a candidate to succeed former Attorney General Pam Bondi.\n <\/p>\n

\n Under Trump, outsiders with a line into the president have sometimes made a larger impact on the administration\u2019s agenda than elected officials or traditional Washington powerbrokers. But there are reasons to question how much influence Ticktin truly wields inside Trump world.\n <\/p>\n

\n One White House official told CNN that while Ticktin is well meaning, he seems to overstate his current relationship with Trump. Ticktin doesn\u2019t speak with the president regularly and does not influence the White House\u2019s policies toward elections and voting, the official said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Still, Ticktin secured a major victory in May when Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted the sentence of Peters, who was convicted of conspiring with Trump allies to breach voting systems in her county in 2021.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ticktin had briefly appeared to notch another win when the Justice Department announced a $1.8 billion \u201canti-weaponization fund\u201d \u2014 something he\u2019d been pushing for months, with clients eager to file claims. But the Trump administration has since appeared to kill the idea amid stiff, bipartisan political and legal blowback. Ticktin says he\u2019s still pursuing lawsuits for his clients against the US government over January 6.\n <\/p>\n

\n A review of Ticktin\u2019s lengthy career as a lawyer in Florida and his efforts trying to help Trump prove election fraud show both that Ticktin has a flair for the dramatic as well as a willingness to push the limits of the legal process. His unorthodox and sometimes line-crossing behavior has been repeatedly rebuked in court by judges, but he says he\u2019 s simply operating at the \u201ccutting edge of the law.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Hunting for fraud\n<\/h2>\n

\n Ticktin\u2019s claims of foreign election interference in the 2020 election are focused on voting machines, particularly those manufactured by Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic, which worked for years in Venezuelan elections.\n <\/p>\n

\n Unproven allegations that voting machines were hacked by foreign powers through their software have been percolating for years \u2014 it\u2019s a claim Trump\u2019s then-lawyer Sidney Powell made at an infamous press conference in the days after Trump\u2019s 2020 loss.\n <\/p>\n

\n A March 2021 from the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security debunked the allegations of foreign hacking, saying a multi-agency investigation found the claims were \u201cnot credible.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n DHS and DOJ found no evidence \u201cthat a foreign government or other actors compromised election infrastructure to manipulate election results,\u201d the report stated.\n <\/p>\n

\n The intelligence community\u2019s declassified report said that US intelligence had \u201cno information suggesting that the current or former Venezuelan regimes were involved in attempts to compromise US election infrastructure.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Ticktin is part of a group of 2020 election deniers who have dismissed the government\u2019s conclusions \u2014 and urged the Trump administration to keep investigating 2020. Since Trump returned to office, the administration sought to find fraud in the 2020 election by seizing ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, after a referral from former White House official and 2020 election denier Kurt Olsen, as well as voting machines from Puerto Rico.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ticktin pointed to the administration\u2019s charges against Maduro and another former Venezuelan minister in May, saying that the onetime Venezuelan leader was the key cog that would lead to evidence of election fraud spilling out.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHe\u2019s gonna talk. He\u2019s gonna sing like a canary,\u201d Ticktin said. \u201cMaduro is one of the heads of the snake that caused all of this.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n DOJ officials, however, pushed back on the idea that Maduro has offered any evidence of election-related crimes. The Justice Department\u2019s charges against Maduro are related to international drug trafficking, and prosecutors have never indicated the investigation into Maduro went beyond the drug conspiracy.\n <\/p>\n

\n A lawyer for Maduro did not respond to CNN\u2019s request for comment.\n <\/p>\n

\n Last year, Ticktin helped to draft an executive order to declare a national emergency based on alleged 2020 foreign election interference, which asserts that Trump can take steps including restricting most mail-in voting and banning the use of voting machines.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe machines are still in play,\u201d Ticktin claimed.\n<\/p>\n

\n Trump did release an executive order earlier this year that sought to curb mail-in voting, though it did not go nearly as far as Ticktin is seeking (federal judges have blocked the US Postal Service from carrying out the order).\n <\/p>\n

\n \u2018Best friends\u2019 from childhood\n<\/h2>\n

\n Ticktin\u2019s history with Trump dates back to their time at the New York Military Academy, a boarding school about 50 miles north of New York City.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe were very close. In fact, you could say we were best friends in our senior year of high school,\u201d Ticktin said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ticktin went on to become a lawyer, first in Ontario, Canada and then in Boca Raton, Florida. Working as a civil litigator, Ticktin proved a knack for generating headlines. While defending homeowners facing foreclosure in 2010, he made national news by releasing 150 depositions from bank employees who said they had little to no formal training and skirted requirements while signing foreclosure affidavits.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ticktin also represented notable clients more recently, including Markle\u2019s estranged half-sister in a defamation lawsuit against the Duchess of Sussex and a member of the Backstreet Boys over a Florida beach property dispute.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ticktin\u2019s efforts in 2010 helped many of his clients avoid foreclosure. But the Florida Bar investigated the novel way he was paid by clients lacking funds \u2014 by taking out a mortgage owed to the law firm if they won their cases. Ticktin says he was cleared of wrongdoing.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ticktin\u2019s Florida bar license was also suspended three months in 2009 over conflict-of-interest allegations.\n <\/p>

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\n As Trump launched his 2016 political campaign and won the presidency, Ticktin was often quoted in news stories about Trump\u2019s childhood, such as a Washington Post story that recalled Trump\u2019s reaction to the Cuban Missile Crisis. In 2020, Ticktin penned his own book about the president: \u201cWhat Makes Trump Tick: My Years with Donald Trump from New York Military Academy to the Present.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Pushing to pardon Tina Peters\n<\/h2>\n

\n After the president tried to overturn the 2020 election results and his supporters rioted at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Ticktin became part of Trump\u2019s cadre of lawyers and also represented some of the most prominent election deniers.\n <\/p>\n

\n Controversy followed him throughout the legal system.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ticktin joined with Trump attorney Alina Habba to represent Trump in a sprawling 2022 civil lawsuit filed against Hillary Clinton, alleging that she conspired to undermine his 2016 campaign by tying him to Russia. A judge threw out the suit and sanctioned Habba, Ticktin and the other lawyers for making allegations \u201cthat were either knowingly false or made in reckless disregard for the truth.\u201d An appeals court .\n <\/p>\n

\n In recent years,\u202fTicktin\u202fled a surprisingly\u202fsuccessful effort\u202fto free Peters, the county clerk who became a\u202ffolk hero among election deniers for being the last person in prison for crimes related to efforts to undermine the 2020 results.\n <\/p>\n

\n Peters was\u202ffound guilty\u202fof state charges in a 2021 conspiracy to\u202fbreach\u202fvoting machines in Mesa County, Colorado, in hopes of proving Trump\u2019s voter fraud claims.\u202fTicktin\u202fjoined her legal team after the trial and became a leading advocate in right-wing media, and beyond.\n <\/p>\n

\n In December,\u202fTicktin\u202fsent a nine-page letter to Trump, making the case for a presidential pardon. He appealed to Trump\u2019s longstanding grievances about the election.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cTina Peters is a critical, and necessary witness to the most serious crime perpetrated against the United States in history,\u201d\u202fTicktin\u202fwrote, referring to the 2020 presidential election.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Within days, Trump granted the\u202fsymbolic federal pardon. And more importantly, Trump also mounted a monthslong pressure campaign against Colorado and its Democratic governor \u2014 the only person who held clemency power for her state-level crimes \u2014 to try to secure Peters\u2019 freedom.\n <\/p>\n

\n Polis granted\u202fa commutation in May,\u202fdrawing\u202fbipartisan blowback from state prosecutors and lawmakers. Peters was released the next month.\u202fAmong other things, Polis\u202fcited\u202fa letter Peters included in her clemency petition where she, in his words, \u201cexpressed contrition.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n But in an interview with CNN,\u202fTicktin\u202fdisputed the notion that Peters is \u201cfeeling contrition and remorse.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n And on the day of Peters\u2019 commutation, Ticktin\u2019s first public statement credited Trump \u2014 not Polis.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWithout his efforts, she would still be behind bars,\u201d Ticktin said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ticktin accompanied Peters last week when Trump hosted her at the White House. \u201cWe had a wonderful talk,\u201d Ticktin said of the meeting.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201c\u2018FREE TINA!\u2019 became the rallying cry of the Republican Party over the past two years,\u201d Trump posted on Truth Social, along with a photo of Peters.\n <\/p>\n

\n Counsel to conspiracy theorists\n<\/h2>\n

\n In addition to Peters,\u202fTicktin\u202frepresents other prominent election deniers trying to fend off defamation lawsuits tied to their false voter fraud claims.\n <\/p>\n

\n Among his clients are\u202fByrne, the former Overstock CEO, and Joe Oltman, a podcaster from Colorado. They were sued by Dominion Voting Systems and a former Dominion executive for falsely claiming their machines fraudulently\u202fflipped\u202fmillions of votes in 2020 from Trump to Joe Biden.\n <\/p>\n

\n These cases have been thrown into chaos thanks to conspiracy-filled emails from\u202fTicktin to opposing counsel, his continued work with an attorney\u202fdisqualified\u202ffor leaking Dominion\u2019s files, and even a physical altercation before a deposition, according to a CNN review of dozens of court records.\n <\/p>\n

\n The fight happened in January before ex-Dominion executive\u202fEric Coomer\u202fwas set to be deposed in his case against Byrne. Coomer\u2019s lawyer, Charlie Cain, said in court filings that he was \u201cphysically attacked\u201d by\u202fTicktin, who \u201cshoved\u201d him twice while \u201cyelling\u201d and \u201cshouting\u201d about the deposition.\n <\/p>\n

\n These claims were backed up by surveillance footage and eyewitness affidavits. \u201cDespite only being involved in this case for six months,\u202fTicktin\u202fhas managed to violate virtually every rule of decorum,\u201d Cain wrote in a February filing.\n <\/p>\n

\n Ticktin has claimed that Cain was the aggressor and called him a \u201clying sleazebag\u201d in court filings. \u201cI was assaulted by Cain and responded appropriately by pushing Mr. Cain,\u201d he told CNN. \u201cI should have slugged him, or at least that is what he deserved.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The Byrne-Dominion case has been similarly roiled by\u202fTicktin\u2019s antics.\n <\/p>\n

\n Lawyers for Dominion told the judge that metadata in a brief filed by\u202fTicktin showed that it was authored by\u202fStefanie Lambert, an election-denying lawyer already banned from the case for leaking. In\u202fTicktin\u2019s later filings, the author name was switched to Rick Astley, of\u202f\u201crickroll\u201d meme fame.\n <\/p>\n

\n Internal emails later made public in court filings showed Ticktin insulting Dominion lawyers, spurning the collegiality usually seen among attorneys.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cLet\u2019s not forget who the real criminal is here,\u201d he told the Dominion team, accusing their clients of election crimes related to 2020.\n <\/p>\n

\n A fight over January 6 clients\n<\/h2>\n

\n After Trump returned to the White House, Ticktin joined forces with Missouri attorney Mark\u202fMcCloskey \u2014 who gained notoriety in 2020 after he and his wife pointed guns at Black Lives Matter demonstrators from their St. Louis front yard \u2014 to push for compensation for those charged, then pardoned by Trump, for their role in the January 6 riot at the US Capitol.\n <\/p>\n

\n Last year, Ticktin repeatedly criticized then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who has since been nominated to become the full-time attorney general, over the treatment of January 6 defendants.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHe doesn\u2019t understand what\u2019s going on with the weaponization,\u201d Ticktin said of Blanche. \u201cHe never took control of his own department in a way that would fix it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n But Ticktin\u2019s partnership with McCloskey, who was representing hundreds of January 6 clients, ended in acrimony.\n <\/p>\n

\n Earlier this year, McCloskey\u202fstepped away from the effort after receiving a medical diagnosis with a median life expectancy of less than three years. He told CNN he feared he wouldn\u2019t be able to see his clients\u2019 cases through, so he passed them to Ticktin. (He declined to specify the exact condition.)\n <\/p>\n

\n Then a month later, the Justice Department announced the $1.8 billion \u201canti-weaponization fund\u201d that could have reimbursed those convicted of crimes related to January 6. McCloskey wrote to his clients that he intended to \u201ccontinue the fight\u201d now that the fund was on the table to shorten the timeline.\n <\/p>\n

\n But there was a rift with Ticktin, McCloskey told CNN. Many of his clients stuck with Ticktin and didn\u2019t return, he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cPeter, for whatever reason, apparently wasn\u2019t very happy about me wanting to step back in,\u201d\u202fMcCloskey said. \u201cHe has made it clear that he no longer wishes to work with me.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Ticktin said that McCloskey quit and handed off his clients with no notice, and that he chose not to continue his partnership with McCloskey because \u201che does not work well with me.\u201d He filed a lawsuit last week against the federal government representing a dozen January 6 defendants alleging prosecutorial misconduct.\n <\/p>\n

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CNN\u2019s Isabelle Khurshudyan, Kristen Holmes and Hannah Rabinowitz contributed to this report. <\/p>

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