But he believes
Trump the lying silencing liar claims to “believe” millions of people voted illegally, but since he’s a chronic liar, that’s not very plausible – and it’s also beside the point.
President Donald Trump believes millions of votes were cast illegally in last year’s election, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on Tuesday, but he wouldn’t provide any concrete evidence for the claim, which has long been debunked.
“The President does believe that, I think he’s stated that before, and stated his concern of voter fraud and people voting illegally during the campaign and continues to maintain that belief based on studies and evidence people have brought to him,” Spicer said.
Pressed for what evidence exists, Spicer would say only that Trump “has believed that for a while based on studies and information he has.”
In other words somebody wrote it down on a yellow pad and showed it to him.
A number of studies have found no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
The Truth About Voter Fraud, a report written by experts at The Brennan Center for Justice, found voter fraud rates were between 0.00004% and 0.0009%.
That’s…not 3 million people.
Expect this obsession to last his entire time in office… will quite possibly get worse.
Will quite possibly not end well for any of us…
That’s not even 10,000 people if you take 0.00009% of the entire world population (estimated at 7 billion)
It’s just under 300 people if you multiply the current estimated population of the United States (324,423,000) by that same percentage. 300. I guess they could make a movie about them at the very least.
I’ve already beaten the drum more than a bit on whether cons start to believe their own lies. I think: yeah, frequently. Not even sure how interesting a phenomenon it is, anymore…
What might be interesting is: how it telegraphs their punch. It may be: he’s talking himself and his followers into this because he intends to disenfranchise those who oppose him. He’s essentially saying: that shouldn’t be allowed. They voted against me? That’s illegitimate. Can’t be right. Can’t be allowed to be right. Doing something about it, maybe we should do that…
Kinda showing his hand, to use another metaphor.
And probably worth shining a very bright spotlight on. Deliberate disenfranchisement of minority voters, especially.
It would be a pretty inept conspiracy to get 3 million people casting illegal votes but send them to the wrong states.
@Stagamancer only about half the population voted at all, right? So more like 150 people.
Somebody should tell him that even if this were true, he would still have gotten less votes than Obama if you just count the absolute numbers.
He is obsessed. Sick.
““has believed that for a while based on studies and information he has.”
If we were to take Spicer’s comments at face value, the obvious question to respond with is: So who is the saboteur that is feeding ludicrous and dangerous false information to the President of the United States and why the heck aren’t you *doing* anything about it?
…. but who takes anything Spicer says at face value?