Trump claims serious voter fraud in 3 states

[JonLP24]

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Source: The Hill

President-elect Donald Trump alleged Sunday evening that there were “serious voter fraud” issues in three states during the election, calling out results from Virginia, New Hampshire and California.

The Twitter accusation capped off an active day on the social media platform for the president elect. He started the morning saying a Green Party-launched recount in Wisconsin, along with efforts in Michigan and Pennsylvania, will not change the results of the election.

But in the afternoon, he tweeted an unsubstantiated claim that “millions of people” voted illegally and said he would have won the popular vote if those "illegal" votes were discounted.

Trump won 290 Electoral College votes, but trails Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by more than 2 million in the popular vote tally.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/307626-trump-claims-serious-voter-fraud-in-3-states

[Skinner]

1. Jesus he is a fucking train wreck. (nt)

[cstanleytech]

6. Most everyone with common sense figured that out long ago Skinner but sadly though alot of others

without much if any common sense did not and now the rest of will have to deal with with their mistake and then try to clean up their mess *sigh*

[moonscape]

13. You're too kind. n/t

[RKP5637]

15. Yeah, he can't even keep on the tracks laid for him! He will never be able to handle the

presidency. Keith Olbermann did a great analysis of removal ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=412476

[msongs]

22. the "train wreck" is controlling the messaging. and from hillary....crickets nt

[LisaL]

39. What do you want her to say?

[titaniumsalute]

69. Sorry but if Hillary gets into this

It will just look like sour grapes to many people.

[wordpix]

75. it's time for Hillary voters - US- to step up and Jill Stein/donors are doing just that

This is not Hillary's fight except to say she supports the recount for voter and election integrity. But what does that accomplish? Millions of people saying it count much more.

[stonecutter357]

79. stop using hillary as a crutch..

[Quackers]

26. ...

[wordpix]

74. "an active day on the social media platform for the president elect" LOL

He's busy on the Transition tweeting into the night

[Xipe Totec]

2. Let him put his money where the sphincter he calls a mouth is

Let him pay for recounts in those states.

[inanna]

7. plus a million

[rzemanfl]

3. Donald, you orange piece of shit, put up or shut up.

Where, what happened, what's your proof?

By the way, I f**ked all three of your wives. I'll provide my proof when you provide yours. Oh, and the centerfold too.

[BeyondGeography]

4. What a loon!

Wound tighter than a drum. Do we really have to live with this child for the next four years?

[jimlup]

5. Apparently his handlers can't control him

which is a serious problem for the country

[mopinko]

16. it's a serious problem for the country that he needs handlers.

that make me want to smash my teevee when they kept saying- oh, if his staff can keep him on point- and i'm thinkin- waaah?

[RKP5637]

17. He's going to crack. There is no F'en way he can handle the pressure of being president. n/t

[NYC Liberal]

59. I wonder if he'll ever hold a press conference.

Can you imagine? The debate meltdowns will pale in comparison to what happens if he ever does.

All the media has to do is ask him very specific, detailed questions that he'll know nothing about because he doesn't even want to receive briefings.

[RobinA]

73. I Fully Expect

a psychotic break at some point. He functions very close to his edge as evidenced by his need for Ivanka (or some other known quantity) close at hand whenever he has to do anything, as well as his desire to remain in his accustomed environment rather than spend much time at the White House. The need to sleep at home when on the campaign trail is also interesting. We won't know when this happens, they will cover it.

[DallasNE]

50. Control Him? Hell, They Are His Top Cheerleaders

It is the good cop - bad cop routine. What Trump has taught us is that all you have to do is to suck all of the oxygen out of the room. It doesn't matter how it is done, only that you do it. And that is all he is doing here - sucking the oxygen out of the room. Crooked Hillary equals voter fraud. And Trump is laughing all of the way to the bank.

Today on Amazon I saw two identical t-shirts for sale. One said "Trump" and had a picture of the flag and was selling for $40. The other said "Love Trumps Hate" and was selling for $17.

[madaboutharry]

8. The man needs a psychiatric intervention.

One thing is certain, the burden of the presidency will break him. He will have a nervous breakdown, and we will all watch it happen live on tv.

[roamer65]

9. Ok Dump, recount them and you will eat crow.

I double dog dare you.

[raging moderate]

78. I triple-chicken dare him!

That's from my old Chicago streets, long ago!

[cabot]

10. He truly is an asshole

Wow. Good luck, everyone. I hope the electors vote their conscience, and you are not saddled with this moron for four years.

[stopbush]

11. I'm embarrassed to be an American.

Trump has embarrased us to the world. We are fast losing any respect we have built over the centuries.

It takes skill, dedication and talent to build a house. All it takes is an asshole with a match to burn it down in seconds.

[Initech]

12. I would like to refer Trump to a book called "The Boy Who Cried Wolf".

[meow2u3]

31. Link to "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"

http://aesop.pangyre.org/fable/the-shepherd-s-boy-and-the-wolf.html

[Initech]

34. Also one of the best Simpsons episodes ever:

[Turbineguy]

14. Great let's get to the bottom of that.

Check all 50 States. Just to be sure.

[kimbutgar]

18. I was going to make the same comment

Let's challenge him to a recount of all 50 states since he is so sure he won.

[C Moon]

32. Yes please! :)

[JustinL]

33. That's not enough. We need to redo the election.

Maybe enough protest voters and stay-at-homers would come to their senses that Trump would go down in a landslide.

[Grey Lemercier]

65. no such thing as a redo, the best we can hope for is kicked

to the house, and that will yield whichever rethug a faithless rw elector votes for instead of trump

IF (and this is a huge IF) there is hardcore smoking gun evidence of actual systemic vote fraud for trump via actual hacked software/hardware in multiple states, we MIGHT be able to force the Rethugs in the House to vote for Clinton. That will take insane violence or threat of viokence and civil war to get them to do that. Obama will have to declare martial law and pray the military sides with him.

At that point the Trump nazis will go beserk and the military will crush them.

I am not joking nor overstating. The country's future, if the vote is proven hacked for the Rethugs, will dance on a head of a pin. Thank god Obama will still be in control. I am an utter atheist but at that point I never would blame a soul for praying for the world's future, as Russia, North Korea, etc will take advantage and try crazy shit.

[BainsBane]

68. Look, the asshole is going to be president

We just have to face that horrifying reality.

[Grey Lemercier]

70. I have been one of many who said he will be POTUS, barring a pre Jan 20, 2017 demise

I was simply playing out an extraordinarily unlikely scenario, a scenario that is pushed by most of the board (ie. the actual votes in multiple states were tampered with and then dead cold solid proof is found).

[wordpix]

76. who knows what will happen by then? We're still in Nov. with 1-1/2 mos. to go

[Grey Lemercier]

77. yep, all we can do is wait and see what shakes out, the delta is OFF the charts on this one

[lonestarnot]

49. Absolutely. All 50

[NeoConsSuck]

19. God help us!

This is going to the leader of the free world in less than 2 months? It's scary to envision such a thought.

In fact, consider that out of the four candidates for President in 2016, three of them were either batshit crazy or totally incompetent. It looks like Americans had no problem electing the most incompetent batshit crazy candidate out of the entire bunch.

It is said that elections have consequences and in a democracy, citizens get the government they deserve. Good luck with that!

[truthisfreedom]

20. Humorous.

He knows it's over.

[ck4829]

21. So let's agree to a 50 state recount then, sound good?

[RKP5637]

23. In fact, let's hold the election again with the electoral college dumped. n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

24. In Trump's mind fraud is when they don't vote for Trump

No man is a villain to himself.

[KingCharlemagne]

72. Iago was, so much so that Coleridge could characterize him as

"motiveless malignity." But Iago was a fictional character, so you may have a point. Trump reminds me now of Commander Queeg of The Caine Mutiny, fine as long as there are no stressors. But mislay those strawberries and . . . watch out!

[bucolic_frolic]

25. BTW, he is going to go for a recount in those states, no?

Because you can't blame the other side for a recount while at the same
time say there was cheating against you ... you have to be all in, or all out.
Trump's trying to be on both sides of everything.

[ucrdem]

27. Sounds like they're targeting McCauliffe and Jerry Brown

not to mention Alex Padilla the CA SoS and other Dems.

Welp, bring it on!

[cilla4progress]

28. Falsely claims

You mean

[MFM008]

29. California hates you

Maggot.

[hatrack]

30. Evidence, fuckface? Affadavits? Witnesses? Anything at all?

Yeah, I didn't think so either . . .

[hadEnuf]

35. Hard to tell

if the little dictator is just being his usual unhinged self or if he's actually worried about what the coming recounts will show....?

[LisaL]

36. I would have thought he would pick New York. After all, he lost his home state so bigly.

[CanonRay]

37. I'm perfectly comfortable re-counting those as well.

Let's manually re-count the whole fucking country.

[Vogon_Glory]

38. If Illegal Voter Fraud Was Real, Then Wouldn't It Follow That

The "illegal voters" wouldn't have gone so far away from Sunny Mexico to vote in Virginia or New Hampshire. They would have swarmed the polling stations of Texas and Arizona which, with the exception of Texas' Rio Grande Valley, remained within the clutches of the Republican Party.

Donnie, Donnie, Donnie...If you're going to make up stuff that you want other people to believe, MAKE YOUR STORIES CREDIBLE!!!

[DeminPennswoods]

40. I guess this is a rhetorical question,

but why wouldn't you just shut up about the recounts?

[LisaL]

41. Has there ever been a winning candidate complaining about voter fraud?

[Baitball Blogger]

42. Maybe he should put up money of his own to pay for a recount in the states in question?

[oberliner]

43. He should start a fundraiser for a recount

Why not, right?

[LisaL]

44. Yea, lets recount California.

[groundloop]

45. IMO he's laying the groundwork for even more oppressive voter registration laws

We know damned good and well that voter ID laws, voter purges, etc. are how repugs cling to power. By expanding those laws they'll make it even more difficult to vote them out. The comparisons between tRump and Hitler are getting scarier and scarier.

[liberal N proud]

46. He just now came up with that, and pulled three names

[kyburbonkid]

47. I too would like to see a recount.

Here is a math problem. at what number does a count of popular vote per state exceed the count of popular vote per nation and at what percent does the Electorial College represent the popular vote state by state?

[BigDemVoter]

48. What an embarrassing piece of shit he is.

[SHRED]

51. Every word counts now you POS

Stupid Orange Anus.

[BigDemVoter]

52. I'd say he's RIGHT for once!

I am just salivating at the thought of watching the Yam spin.

[riversedge]

53. and Trump gets his information from fake news site--Infowars!!...

Trump tweets about ‘serious voter fraud’ in 3 states

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/307626-trump-claims-serious-voter-fraud-in-3-states



.................................................................Clinton won all the three states Trump singled out on Sunday night. In California, Clinton bested Trump by more than 3 million votes, taking 61.6 percent to his 32.8 percent. In Virginia, she won by 185,689 votes, or 49.9 percent to 45 percent. The margin in New Hampshire was much closer, with some 2,700 votes separating the two.

The claim that people voted illegally has gained traction in conservative circles after being publicized by controversial Infowars radio host Alex Jones, who published an article earlier this month with the headline, "Report: 3 million votes in presidential election cast by illegal aliens."

[phleshdef]

54. Well then, lets have a nation wide second look at the election in every single nook an cranny...

..."Mr. President-Elect" if that is the kind of thing you believe is going on, then fine, lets have this out to the fullest extent. I'll fully support you in your effort to do so.

[TomCADem]

55. Well, Then He Should Also Demand a Recount!

After all, if his claim is true, shouldn't restoring faith in the integrity of U.S. elections be a vital national concern?

Even Hillary Clinton's campaign is saying that it is not aware of any evidence that any irregularities would affect the result, but if Trump is right, then a recount is a must!

[SunSeeker]

56. How could the Republicans not be embarrassed by this orange shitstain?

He is totally unhinged.

[TrogL]

57. Wait, what??!?

I'm completely lost here.

Both sides are declaring vote fraud? Granted it's for different reasons, but still...

Are you sure you don't want to go back to paper ballots?

[LisaL]

58. Clinton hasn't claimed anything about vote fraud.

[TrogL]

60. Jill Stein is backing a recount

By side I mean Trump and everybody else

[wisteria]

61. All states Clinton won.

[Coyotl]

62. Trump has been channeling InfoWars again. Great advisors, only the best people.

Andy Borowitz 6 hrs ·
New definition of narcissistic personality disorder: claiming that an election was rigged EVEN AFTER YOU FUCKING WON IT.

[world wide wally]

63. Trump also claims he's not a sociopathic asshole or a racist

Bullshit is still bullshit

[madokie]

64. is tRumps first name

really DICK?

cause he sure is one

[OldRedneck]

66. The Clinton campaign had a BRILLIANT strategy:

Help millions of illegal aliens vote in safe blue states such as California but don't send them to the battleground states.

Brilliant!!!

At least, that's what Trump is telling us!!

[BumRushDaShow]

67. And his ilk followers and the media will believe it, lock, stock, and barrel!

Just because he said it. Count on it.

[Vinca]

71. Great - let's investigate. The longer we delay this nightmare the better.

[DonViejo]

80. Locking...

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