NYT headline: "Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote"

[Recursion]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/us/politics/donald-trump-congress-democrats.html?_r=0

President Trump used his first official meeting with congressional leaders on Monday to falsely claim that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority, a return to his obsession with the election’s results even as he seeks support for his legislative agenda.

The claim, which he has made before on Twitter, has been judged untrue by numerous fact-checkers. The new president’s willingness to bring it up at a White House reception in the State Dining Room is an indication that he continues to dwell on the implications of his popular vote loss even after assuming power.

Mr. Trump appears to remain concerned that the public will view his victory — and his entire presidency — as illegitimate if he does not repeatedly challenge the idea that Americans were deeply divided about sending him to the White House to succeed President Barack Obama.

Mr. Trump received 304 electoral votes to capture the White House, but he fell almost three million votes short of Hillary Clinton in the popular vote. That reality appears to have bothered him since Election Day, prompting him to repeatedly complain that adversaries were trying to undermine him.

In a news piece, not an editorial. Go gray lady.

[beachbum bob]

1. Gotta go with the facts. Media opinions mean little so go hard...

[frazzled]

2. I noticed this: first use by the Times of "Lie"

They inched up with a front-page headline containing "False Claims." But this is a clear editorial decision to use "Lie."

[Gothmog]

3. Trump is lying about voter fraud and I am glad that the press is calling him out on this lie

[kwassa]

4. Kudos to the NY Times for putting it in the title.

and for every other new organization for calling it out that did so.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Election was 21/2 months ago and he is STILL obsessing...

He is not well, at all.
More and more people are seeing this, happily.