{"id":26522,"date":"2017-11-28T14:54:15","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26522"},"modified":"2017-11-28T14:54:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:54:15","slug":"how-about-all-those-illegal-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26522","title":{"rendered":"How about all those ‘illegal voters’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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While the world is fluttering over a British royal engagement, sexual misconduct among members of Congress, the media and entertainment moguls and that “Russia thing,” let’s turn briefly to one of Donald Trump’s many lies.<\/p>\n

It involves his declaration shortly after becoming president of the\u00a0 United States that but for the “millions of illegal immigrants” who voted for Hillary Clinton he would have won the popular vote in the 2016 presidential election. Hillary collected nearly 3 million more votes than Trump, but the president won where it counted: in the Electoral College.<\/p>\n

He defamed local election officials without offering a shred of proof. He just said it. Then he formed a commission to examine voting practices. He sought to obtain previously confidential information about voters to confirm their U.S. citizenship.<\/p>\n

What in the world has happened to this made-up “crisis” in our electoral system? Has the president given up the effort to prove something he knew all along didn’t exist?<\/p>\n

We’ve already passed the first year of Trump’s election. Coming up is the first year since his inauguration as president, which is really when much of the fun started. He’s been using his high office as a pulpit to spew out lie after lie.<\/p>\n

The phony illegal immigrant voting lie ranks up there with the best — or the worst — of them.<\/p>\n

Some of us — perhaps many<\/em> of us — are interested to know how this lie has been resolved.<\/p>\n\n

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While the world is fluttering over a British royal engagement, sexual misconduct among members of Congress, the media and entertainment moguls and that “Russia thing,” let’s turn briefly to one of Donald Trump’s many lies. It involves his declaration shortly after becoming president of the\u00a0 United States that but for the “millions of illegal immigrants” … Continue reading How about all those ‘illegal voters’?<\/span> →<\/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":[74,1424,1551,2139,2239,6680],"class_list":["post-26522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-electoral-college","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-popular-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26522","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=26522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26525,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26522\/revisions\/26525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}