In Peter Ticktin’s world, there always seems to be a conspiracy or cover-up lurking.
The 2020 election? Ticktin claims multiple countries interfered to steal it from President Donald Trump.
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.
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.
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.
