Day 442: Trump Still Lying About, Obsessed With 2016 Election
Donald Trump was elected 18 months ago and he still can’t stop talking about the election. On Tuesday, during a press conference with heads from the Baltic states, Trump called his former opponent, for the millionth time, “crooked Hillary Clinton” when talking about NATO.
Yesterday, in West Virginia, Trump repeated his oft-professed, never-proven-remotely-true claim that millions of people voted illegally.
Clinton got about 66 million votes to Trump’s 63 million votes. Trump is implying that those “millions of people” voted for Clinton twice, all without getting caught. (He’s never outlined exactly how this even remotely possible and his election commission was dissolved after getting nowhere.)
Trump also repeated his false claim that immigrants from Mexico were often rapists, alluding to a throng of asylum seekers. This despite the fact that the caravan that he has been live-tweeting for days is full of people fleeing violence.
Trump’s remarks came after he decided he didn’t want to discuss the Republican tax law, calling those remarks “boring.”
“You know, this was going to be my remarks, it would’ve have taken about two minutes, but to hell with it,” the president said, tossing papers in the air. “That would have been a little boring, a little boring.”
The tax law exists; it is real. If he was proud of it, and wanted to defend it, Trump could’ve spoken about that to the West Virginians who came to see him. Instead, in what is a pattern, he got sidetracked by conspiracy theories and false charges.
442 days in, 1020 to go
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