President Trump announced Wednesday that he will be asking for a “major investigation” into alleged nationwide voter fraud -- a day after his press secretary was grilled on Trump’s claims that 3 million to 5 million people had voted illegally in November.
Trump announced the move on Twitter, and said the probe will focus on “those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and even those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time).”
Trump’s announcement comes a day after White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was forced to defend claims Trump had made at a private meeting with congressional leaders Monday that 3 million to 5 million people had illegally voted in the election.
The president took bipartisan criticism for the comments a day later, with House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., saying he had seen "no evidence" of Trump's claim.
Spicer told the press that that is what Trump believes based on evidence presented to him. Spicer may be referring to a 2014 Washington Post “Monkey Cage” report which came to a similar conclusion. That study found that 14 percent of non-citizens in 2008 and 2010 indicated that they were registered to vote, and extrapolated that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent in 2010.
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4 comments:
Yep, these dumbocrats called his bluff. Already evidence that homeland security hacked in to the Georgia elections.
P.S. they (Jill Stein) stopped the recounts in Michigan when they started finding all sorts of voter fraud in Detroit (Democrats)
Hey Dumbocrats! Trump doesn't play by the old rules, he play to win.
We need to know.
Even if the investigation only shows 'minor' voting fraud it needs to be exposed and corrected. Even 1 illegal vote is too many.
Let him do it. What are the democrats afraid of anyway?
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