permafrost wrote:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/20/17032210/trump-obama-rigged-election-russia
Trump cites a misleading Obama quote to say Russia didn’t interfere in the election
Obama was talking about voter fraud — not Russia.
President Donald Trump tweeted a quote from former President Barack Obama on Tuesday morning as part of his continual attempts to downplay Russian interference in the 2016 election. There’s just one problem: The quote is taken vastly out of context and therefore misleading.
“There is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even — you could even rig America’s elections, in part, because they are so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved,” Obama said during a press conference at the White House in October 2016. “There is no evidence that that has happened in the past or that there are instances in which that will happen this time. And so I’d invite Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes.”
Obama’s remarks were in reference to the then-Republican presidential candidate’s claims that widespread voter fraud would rob him of the election, and his encouragement of his supporters to monitor polling places — and not at all about Russian interference in the election. (Numerous studies have found that voter fraud is very rare in the US.)
Trump repeatedly focused on “voter fraud” in 2016 — which is rare
In the days leading up to the 2016 Obama remarks Trump cited on Tuesday, Trump had tweeted that the election was being rigged by the “dishonest and distorted media” and at many polling places. “Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day,” he wrote.
The comments Trump cited on Tuesday were about that — Obama’s response to Trump’s claims that the election was rigged and calls for supporters to monitor certain areas on the day of the election.
“It’s unprecedented,” Obama said of Trump’s claims when a reporter asked about them in October 2016. “It happens to be based on no facts; every expert, regardless of political party, regardless of ideology, conservative or liberal, who has ever examined these issues in a serious way, will tell you that instances of significant voter fraud are not to be found.”
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Only a fking moron would fall for that collusion bullshit, at your age you actually believe people were coerced? Hillary the PIG lost on her own accord. Biggest piece of white trash ever, she should've been charged for Grand larceny for stealing furniture. Better stock up on blood pressure medicine you'll need it in November.