Georgia Denies Trump Claim of Settling Election-Fraud Suit (3)

President Donald Trump’s explanation on Thursday for why he’s dropping a Hail Mary lawsuit to reverse his election loss in Georgia is false, the state’s Republican attorney general said.

The president told a federal judge he’s voluntarily dismissing the suit seeking to invalidate the election result because he reached an out-of-court settlement agreement to sit down with state officials and discuss data allegedly showing voter fraud. But no such deal exists, Georgia Attorney General Christopher Carr said in a filing responding to Trump.

Governor Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the defendants in Trump’s futile Dec. ...