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riversedge

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Tue Jan 24, 2017, 07:49 PM Jan 2017

Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers




Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/us/politics/donald-trump-congress-democrats.html?_r=1



By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and EMMARIE HUETTEMAN

JAN. 23, 2017



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President Trump met with leaders of Congress from both parties on Monday at the White House. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — 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.



Moving into the White House appears not to have tempered that anxiety. Several people familiar with the closed-door meeting Monday night, who asked to remain anonymous in discussing a private conversation, said Mr. Trump used the opportunity to brag about his victory.

As part of that conversation, Mr. Trump asserted that between three million and five million unauthorized immigrants voted for Mrs. Clinton. That is similar to a Twitter message he posted in late November that said he would have won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”
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Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers (Original Post) riversedge Jan 2017 OP
Makes you wonder how many of his fans he would have sent out to shoot us Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #1
From Ari Berman Gothmog Jan 2017 #2
He's truly insane. There's no way this can last 4 years. manicraven Jan 2017 #3

Eliot Rosewater

(31,096 posts)
1. Makes you wonder how many of his fans he would have sent out to shoot us
Tue Jan 24, 2017, 07:53 PM
Jan 2017

if Russia hadnt hacked the election and stolen it for him in those 3 rust belt states.

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