Trump's Baseless Election Fraud Claim Zooms From 3 Million To 16 Million Votes
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Trump's Baseless Election Fraud Claim Zooms From 3 Million To 16 Million Votes
Mary Papenfuss, HuffPost 11 hours ago
President Donald Trump has more than quintupled down on his baseless claims of shady voting to explain why he lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 — and this time he blamed Google.Trump has repeatedly insisted — with no evidence — that 3 million (maybe as many as 5 million) votes were illegally cast by noncitizens. Three million happens to be close to Clinton’s popular vote margin over Trump. But now Trump is insisting that up to 16 million votes were manipulated by Google to Clinton’s benefit.
“My victory was even bigger than thought!” he gushed on Twitter.
The claim comes just days after Ellen Weintraub, the chair of the Federal Election Commission , wrote a letter to the president telling him to shut up about his vote-fraud claims or come up with evidence that there’s any truth to them. Trump established an investigative panel on voter fraud to substantiate his claims in 2017, but it came up with nothing and disbanded.
Weintraub warned that Trump’s unsubstantiated claims undermine faith in the election system. She said she was using words a “former casino operator” could understand: “You need to lay your cards on the table — or fold.”
Instead of folding, Trump raised.
Trump’s new claim was apparently sparked by a Fox Business report Monday about psychologist Robert Epstein’s research. He recently testified before senators that his research has shown that Google’s search algorithms may have “impacted undecided voters in a way that gave at least 2.6 million votes to Clinton.” His study sample, however, involved just 95 voters, 21 of whom considered themselves undecided.
Google denied that its search algorithms are politically biased and has said that Epstein’s study methodology was fatally flawed.
“This researcher’s inaccurate claim has been debunked since it was made in 2016, ” Google said in a statement to CNBC. “As we stated then, we have never re-ranked or altered search results to manipulate political sentiment.”
Clinton made much of the 21 undecided voters in Epstein’s research in a Twitter clapback.
Hillary Clinton
✔ @HillaryClinton
The debunked study you’re referring to was based on 21 undecided voters. For context that’s about half the number of people associated with your campaign who have been indicted. https:// twitter.com/realDonaldTrum p/status/1163478770587721729 …
Donald J. Trump
✔ @realDonaldTrump
Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election! This was put out by a Clinton supporter, not a Trump Supporter! Google should be sued. My victory was even bigger than thought! @ JudicialWatch
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As always attacking the straw dog, instead of facing and dealing with foreign hackers and foreign in influence in American elections. Google doesn't control voting machines or control fake ads placed on social media.
Exactly!
Even if Google did "manipulate" people into voting for Clinton, how is that any different than the Koch brothers using dark money to buy ads to manipulate people into voting for their candidates?
It's perfectly legal to try to influence voters as long as you are American. Trump does it every day.
Trump has accused Google about this just like he accuses the Clintons in regards to Epstein with no proof in either case. Color me so not surprised. This clown has got to go.
"voting to explain why he lost the popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016 — and this time he blamed Google.Trump has repeatedly insisted — with no evidence — that 3 million (maybe as many as 5 million) votes were illegally cast by noncitizens."
Trump has no evidence of illegals voting because nobody knows the truth! I have an idea! California should turn over it's voter rolls to the national voter fraud commission. There is nothing like transparency is there?
Until then anybody can claim that California is allowing illegal aliens to vote. That's why it's a solid blue state and ya, it looks like Trump is right again!
Then why make the claim? Kobach tried his thing in Kansas and the court told him to go back and learn the law. So no, it doesn't look like Trump is right again, if ever.
Trump only says things his base wants to hear. Truth and rightness have nothing to do with it.
He has every right. It's on California. They can easily prove him wrong - provided they aren't doing what it's soooo obvious they are doing!
It's like when certain people on NT vote up their own comments. It's there to see if you take the time to look.
And why exactly is is incumbent on California to prove his statement wrong? He can't, or won't, provide anything that substantiates his claim, so he has effectively made it point of he said, she said.
I can just as easily say that millions of people voted twice to elect Trump and leave it at that. Is it then incumbent on Trump to prove me false? NO, unless I provide facts and figures. Then it would be on him to disprove my statement.