{"id":21617,"date":"2017-05-13T16:09:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-13T16:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21617"},"modified":"2017-05-13T16:09:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-13T16:09:32","slug":"on-the-hunt-for-millions-of-illegal-votes-good-luck-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21617","title":{"rendered":"On the hunt for millions of illegal votes? Good luck with that"},"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\/2017\/05\/5915e57a1600001a22c5af0c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21618\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5915e57a1600001a22c5af0c-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5915e57a1600001a22c5af0c-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5915e57a1600001a22c5af0c.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump has made a number of scurrilous accusations since entering political life.<\/p>\n<p>One of them involves an allegation that &#8220;millions of illegal aliens&#8221; cast votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016, which gave her the 3 million popular vote &#8220;victory&#8221; over the president.<\/p>\n<p>What has the president done to bolster that accusation? He has appointed a voter-fraud conspiracy theorist to lead an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to center stage, Kris Kobach.<\/p>\n<p>The Kansas secretary of state has been one of the leaders in this movement that impugns the integrity of the nation&#8217;s electoral system. He has contended there are incidents of massive voter fraud, with non-citizens casting ballots in races in Kansas and Missouri. Now he gets to prove it&#8217;s all true in a national level.<\/p>\n<p>What utter crap!<\/p>\n<p>This has the earmarks of a witch hunt and is the kind of thing that in the end only will further erode the credibility of a president who&#8217;s prone to fabricate conspiracies and &#8220;fake news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/kris-kobach-voter-fraud-commission_us_5915e3cce4b0031e737d5d9c\">Record is full of fabrications<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump has done so repeatedly since he rode down that escalator to announce his presidential candidacy in the summer of 2015. Barack Obama wasn&#8217;t qualified to run for president because he wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;natural born U.S. citizen&#8221;? Thousands of Muslims cheering the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9\/11? Ted Cruz&#8217;s father&#8217;s alleged complicity in\u00a0President Kennedy&#8217;s\u00a0murder? Those millions of illegal votes cast for Hillary in 2016? President Barack Obama wiretapping the Trump campaign office?<\/p>\n<p>Now he has selected a fellow conspiracy nut to get to the bottom of a problem that <em>does not exist<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Give me a break.<\/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 John Trump has made a number of scurrilous accusations since entering political life. One of them involves an allegation that &#8220;millions of illegal aliens&#8221; cast votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016, which gave her the 3 million popular vote &#8220;victory&#8221; over the president. What has the president done to bolster that accusation? He has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21617\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the hunt for millions of illegal votes? Good luck with that<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[95,540,1424,2139,4931,5131],"class_list":["post-21617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-95","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-twin-towers","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617","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=21617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21619,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21617\/revisions\/21619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}