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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 elections 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 presidents 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
Eliot Rosewater
(31,096 posts)1. Makes you wonder how many of his fans he would have sent out to shoot us
if Russia hadnt hacked the election and stolen it for him in those 3 rust belt states.
Gothmog
(143,998 posts)2. From Ari Berman
manicraven
(901 posts)3. He's truly insane. There's no way this can last 4 years.