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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 12:59 PM Apr 2020

Trump invents voter fraud story to oppose absentee voting -- even though he does it

By Josh Israel -April 9, 2020 12:29 PM

Trump's own commission failed to find any evidence of widespread voter fraud in the United States.

Donald Trump falsely claimed on Wednesday that a million people had voted illegally in California and that the state had admitted this in a legal settlement.

At a press conference, Trump was asked about his opposition to voting by mail — a system used in Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. He responded by claiming that "the great state of California" had settled a case brought by the right-wing group Judicial Watch and "they agreed that a million people should not have voted, where they were 115 years old and lots of things and people were voting in their place."

"I think there's a lot of evidence, but we'll provide you with some, okay? And there’s evidence that's being compiled just like it's being compiled in the state of California, where they settled with Judicial Watch, saying that a million people should not have been voting in — you saw that," he said.

He then incorrectly stated that every one of the states with vote-by-mail systems "happens to be won by the Democrats."

https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-voter-fraud-lies-california-illegal-votes-mail-voting-judicial-watch-2016-election/

Maybe Judaical watch should have seen what was going in North Carolina....................after all a republican operative was stuffing the ballots and hiring people to break the law, and as a side note...................Judaical Watch............. your "guy" lost by 3 million votes so the KOCH foundation of BS, Heritage Fund and Heartland can go pound sand..................

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Trump invents voter fraud story to oppose absentee voting -- even though he does it (Original Post) turbinetree Apr 2020 OP
Fraud? Newest Reality Apr 2020 #1
And CON................ turbinetree Apr 2020 #2
As always, he makes outlandish claims without a shred of evidence to back them up. Arkansas Granny Apr 2020 #3
Because they have reached the Jim Jones/Marshall Applewhite Miguelito Loveless Apr 2020 #6
This is a bunch that lives and breathes how the 1960 election was "stolen" JHB Apr 2020 #7
There's your evidence -- the GOP rigs elections Blue Owl Apr 2020 #4
He had his big fraud investigation into the 2016 election and found zilch....zero....nada...nuttin' world wide wally Apr 2020 #5

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Fraud?
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 01:03 PM
Apr 2020

The only fraud I am seeing is the guy talking there.

What can you expect from a confidence man, mobster dictator who is pretending to be a President?

But they say, "Oh, no! Let's go to this clandestine tyrant to ask him what he thinks about this, that and the other thing."

On the other hand, he does know all about fraud. He's like an expert as many people say. He knows about it more than most people.

Arkansas Granny

(31,515 posts)
3. As always, he makes outlandish claims without a shred of evidence to back them up.
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 01:05 PM
Apr 2020

How can his cult continue to accept every word that falls from his lips?

JHB

(37,159 posts)
7. This is a bunch that lives and breathes how the 1960 election was "stolen"
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 01:39 PM
Apr 2020

It all revolves around voting in Chicago, where Mayor Daley allegedly stuffed ballots for Kennedy, giving him the state. There isn't any proof, but the reputation of Daley's political machine was such that it wasn't out of the question.

However, no matter what happened, Nixon still would have lost. The presidential election did not hinge on Illinois. There might have been people running for local and state offices that had the election stolen from them, but Richard Nixon was not one of their number.

And since it wouldn't change the election, Nixon was dissuaded from forcing an investigation, which likely would also have turned up similar corrupt practices by Republican machines in downstate areas.

world wide wally

(21,742 posts)
5. He had his big fraud investigation into the 2016 election and found zilch....zero....nada...nuttin'
Thu Apr 9, 2020, 01:20 PM
Apr 2020

Ooops... I think they found one Republican case of fraud somewhere.

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