{"id":18219,"date":"2016-11-27T22:41:34","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T22:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18219"},"modified":"2016-11-27T22:41:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T22:41:34","slug":"millions-voted-illegally-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18219","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Millions voted illegally&#8217; &#8230; seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/donald-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18220\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/donald-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"donald\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/donald-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/donald-3.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump has\u00a0cemented his title\u00a0as a provocative prevaricator.<\/p>\n<p>The president-elect has launched a fascinating counterattack against those who want to recount the ballots cast in Wisconsin, and possibly in two other states.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he won the Electoral College in a landslide and would have won the popular vote as well if you take out the &#8220;millions&#8221; of votes that were cast &#8220;illegally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/donald-trump-attacks-recount-effort-in-election-where-millions-voted-illegally\/ar-AAkPasR?li=BBnb7Kz\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/donald-trump-attacks-recount-effort-in-election-where-millions-voted-illegally\/ar-AAkPasR?li=BBnb7Kz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Really, Mr. President-elect?<\/p>\n<p>Here is what he wrote in one of his flurry of tweets: \u201cIn addition to winning the electoral college in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well now. A 306-232 electoral vote victory isn&#8217;t really a &#8220;landslide,&#8221; but I digress.<\/p>\n<p>I guess Trump is presuming that most if not all the &#8220;illegal votes&#8221; were cast for Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>He how does he know that? He doesn&#8217;t. Trump doesn&#8217;t know anything about the electoral process that&#8217;s been called into question.<\/p>\n<p>However, he knows that &#8220;millions voted illegally.&#8221; I believe\u00a0the president-elect\u00a0is applying the same base of knowledge he used to declare &#8212; falsely &#8212; that &#8220;thousands of Muslims cheered&#8221; the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9\/11.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald J. Trump has\u00a0cemented his title\u00a0as a provocative prevaricator. The president-elect has launched a fascinating counterattack against those who want to recount the ballots cast in Wisconsin, and possibly in two other states. Trump said he won the Electoral College in a landslide and would have won the popular vote as well if you take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18219\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Millions voted illegally&#8217; &#8230; seriously?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[95,1424,1551,6699,4931],"class_list":["post-18219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-95","tag-donald-trump","tag-electoral-college","tag-illegal-votes","tag-twin-towers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18221,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18219\/revisions\/18221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}