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elleng

(131,176 posts)
Mon Jan 23, 2017, 11:47 PM Jan 2017

Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers. (NYT uses word LIE.)

'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.'>>>

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

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Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers. (NYT uses word LIE.) (Original Post) elleng Jan 2017 OP
Let him keep digging that hole deeper and deeper. Ilsa Jan 2017 #1
Yup StarryNite Jan 2017 #3
+1, he's moved from stupid to crazy now with that dumbness ... as if no one knows. Spicer is an jerk uponit7771 Jan 2017 #4
I'm glad to see that very vital 3 letter word in the title. It needs to be used much more than it is catbyte Jan 2017 #2
Fucking liar lies workinclasszero Jan 2017 #5
KNR Lucinda Jan 2017 #6
Trump's lies will surely boomerang on his sorry ass. oasis Jan 2017 #7
K&R demmiblue Jan 2017 #8
Trump is lying about voter fraud and I am glad that the NYT is calling this claim a lie Gothmog Jan 2017 #9
"Connecticut. Why are they voting? Totally illegal. Let me say this. struggle4progress Jan 2017 #10
Delusional to the core treestar Jan 2017 #11

uponit7771

(90,367 posts)
4. +1, he's moved from stupid to crazy now with that dumbness ... as if no one knows. Spicer is an jerk
Tue Jan 24, 2017, 03:01 AM
Jan 2017

... but MiniPootin is starting to sound like someone who's not mentally stable.

catbyte

(34,472 posts)
2. I'm glad to see that very vital 3 letter word in the title. It needs to be used much more than it is
Mon Jan 23, 2017, 11:58 PM
Jan 2017

I'm so goddamn sick and tired of all the genteel euphemisms the news media uses. JUST TELL THE TRUTH. They are lies.

struggle4progress

(118,378 posts)
10. "Connecticut. Why are they voting? Totally illegal. Let me say this.
Tue Jan 24, 2017, 11:54 AM
Jan 2017

The Founding Fathers, they would be rolling over in their graves, if they knew. Sad. We are going to build a wall. A fabulous wall, around Connecticut."

treestar

(82,383 posts)
11. Delusional to the core
Tue Jan 24, 2017, 11:56 AM
Jan 2017

No proof of his claim - he expects it to be believed merely because he thought of it.

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