8/19/19:
President Trump takes another sock in the glass jaw today, after resurrecting
the claim that millions of illegal voters stormed the polls to vote for Hillary
in 2016. He hints darkly: They’ll be back again next year.
____________________
“There is no evidence of rampant voter fraud in 2016 or really in any previous election.”
Ellen Weintraub, chair of the Federal Election
Commission
____________________
Before heading to New Hampshire for another one of his endless campaign rallies – which are not officially campaign rallies, so taxpayers must foot the costs – Trump stops to vent to reporters. He should have won the state in 2016, he claims. Only, you guessed it. The election was rigged! (See: 8/18/19.)
“New Hampshire should have been won last time,” he tells the press, “except we had a lot of people come in at the last moment, which was a rather strange situation. Thousands and thousands of people, coming in from locations unknown. But I knew where their location was.”
The president doesn’t elaborate. He doesn’t say where “where” was? So, do we guess? Was it Hillary Clinton’s basement?
Narnia?
The Land of Nod?
 |
This cartoon works for any election which includes Donald J. Trump. |
Ellen Weintraub, the chair of the Federal Election Commission, has no choice but to respond. Appearing on CNN on Monday, she faults the president for what – if we were being frank – would be called a lie.
Weintraub is discreet, saying only, “There is no evidence of rampant voter fraud in 2016 or really in any previous election.”
She tells CNN’s John Berman that she sent a letter to the president the previous Friday, asking him to share any evidence me might have to substantiate his claim. “To put it in terms a former casino operator should understand,” she wrote, “there comes a time when you need to lay your cards on the table or fold.”
“Facts
matter,” she tells Berman. “And the people of America need to
be able to believe what their leaders tell them [emphasis added].”
No comments:
Post a Comment