Trump's Voter Fraud Probe Still Hasn't Gotten Off The Ground

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By ESME CRIBB Published FEBRUARY 22, 2017, 1:48 PM EDT

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's promised investigation into his unsubstantiated claims of massive voter fraud has consisted, so far, of naming a task force.

"The President has talked a number of times about millions of illegal immigrants casting votes during the election in his mind," Washington Post reporter David Nakamura asked at Spicer's daily briefing. "Seems like there was no mention of that in any of these directives, to look for these immigrants. Does the President still believe"

"Yeah, he's mentioned that Vice President Pence will lead a task force on this," Spicer interjected.

"Where do we stand on that, though?" Nakamura asked.

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[Laf.La.Dem.]

1. Even the GOP knows this is a waste of money!

[thesquanderer]

2. GOP doesn't care about wasting money...

...but they don't want to be embarrassed by the results!

[cstanleytech]

5. Or they are afraid it would inadvertantly uncover crimes they have been committing

which could explain why they are "for" Voter ID laws because of voter fraud but now oppose an actual investigation into voter fraud.

[Angry Dragon]

3. if he can find 3-5 million illegal voters he should

then put his sight on finding ET

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Trump's Birth Certificate Probe Still Hasn't Gotten Off The Ground

and this stands as much chance of doing so, because there's nothing to either of them, apart from self-promotion and misdirection.