WILL TRUMP EVER ADMIT THAT HE LOST THE POPULAR VOTE WITH MILLIONS OF LEGAL VOTES?

…Many are wonder how long Sean Spicer will last as Trump press mouth-piece

 

The New US Commander-in-Chief believes in torture, that millions of illegals voted for Hillary and probably in the tooth fairy.

 

I just have to continue shaking my head every time I hear Donald Trump continuing to litigate his own election with his comment that he lost the popular vote because of millions of illegal votes.  In every study that he and his team have referenced as proof of this statement, they have all been debunked over and over again.  In one of the bogus studies that they continue to reference, “the Pew 2008 study that said 14% of people who had voted were not citizens” this study has been debunked on five separate occasions by professional Fact Checkers.  But Donald Trump just can’t digest the idea that even though he won the Electoral College, ”how could 3 million voters not want me, the wonderful Donald J. Trump?”

 

What is so sad about this is the Trump team doesn’t seem to care, that by sticking to this bogus and de-bunked study, they don’t realize the harm they are doing to the American voters confidence in America’s small “d” democratic process.

 

Trump’s Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, even brought this up on the second day of work in the White House when he was asked why the new president still keeps referencing his bogus statement of losing because of millions of illegal voters.  When asked, Spicer just again answered with, “The president has believed this for a long time.  I think there have been studies; there was one that came out of Pew in 2008 that showed 14% of people who have voted were not citizens. There are other studies that were presented to him.”

 

Spicer continues to cite repeatedly debunked research to support Trump’s claim that millions of people voted illegally during the 2016 presidential election. These studies do not support Trump’s Four-Pinocchio claims of “millions” of people voting illegally.  (Kind of like his bogus and debunked claim that he saw thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering as the Twin Towers fell.)

 

Spicer told all the reporters in the press room that, “Trump still believes there was widespread voter fraud, based on studies that were presented to him.” Then Spicer cited the same Pew study that does not support that claim. ...?  And moreover, Spicer then conflated that Pew study with another study that also does not support this claim.

 

The 2012 Pew Center on the States Study found problems with inaccurate voter registrations, people who registered in more than one state (which could happen if the voter moves and registers in the new state without telling the former state) and those deceased voters whose information was still on the voter rolls.  Even with all this, there is no evidence that massive numbers of voters are voting in two  registered locations, nor are massive numbers voting in place of dead voters.

 

In fact, the primary author of that same Pew report tweeted in response to Trump’s staff’s claim that:“ I can confirm that Pew report made no findings regarding voter fraud.”  But Trump and company just don’t want to admit that 3 million voters legally voted against Donald J. Trump.

 

In the 2008 study that Spicer continues to reference, the one that says “14% of people who have voted were not citizens,” this is the research by the Old Dominion University professors, using data from 2008 and 2010.  But the researchers continued to warn us that “it is impossible to tell for certain whether the noncitizens who responded to the survey represented the broader population of noncitizens.”

 

One of the researchers, Mr. Jesse Richman, wrote about the Trump staff’s use of his research. The results “suggest that almost all elections in the US are not determined by noncitizen participation, with occasional and very rare potential exceptions,” he wrote.

 

Despite Trump’s repeated claims, his attorneys stated there was no evidence of voter fraud in the 2016 election. In a court filing opposing Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s recount petition, the lawyers for Trump and his campaign had written: “All available evidence suggests that the 2016 general election was not tainted by fraud or mistake.”

 

When this bogus claim was debunked on Nov. 29, 2016, the Fact Checkers and the Pew Research Team implored Trump’s staff members to please drop this talking point.  They implored this as they are very tired of telling them over and over again it is a false claim. 

 

But the new president just can’t stand the idea that he lost the popular vote by more votes than anyone…..ever.

 

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