{"id":27199,"date":"2018-01-04T00:41:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T00:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27199"},"modified":"2018-01-04T00:41:21","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T00:41:21","slug":"voter-fraud-commission-goner-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27199","title":{"rendered":"Voter fraud commission is a goner &#8230; good!"},"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\/2018\/01\/6a00d834515c5469e201bb09b1c160970d.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27200\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/6a00d834515c5469e201bb09b1c160970d-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/6a00d834515c5469e201bb09b1c160970d-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/6a00d834515c5469e201bb09b1c160970d.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump said this today in a statement released by the White House:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>\u201cDespite substantial evidence of voter fraud, many states have refused to provide the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity with basic information relevant to its inquiry. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>\u201cRather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today I signed an executive order to dissolve the Commission, and have asked the Department of Homeland Security to review these issues and determine next courses of action.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Where do I begin? I&#8217;ll start with this: Mr. President, the only &#8220;evidence&#8221; produced came from your mouth or, more accurately, your Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>The president said after the 2016 election that &#8220;millions of illegal immigrants&#8221; voted for Hillary Clinton, giving her the nearly 3 million popular vote margin she rolled up while losing the Electoral College tally. Trump never produced a scintilla of evidence. No one ever proved a thing about alleged <em>widespread<\/em> voter fraud.<\/p>\n<p>So he convened this voter fraud panel to prove he was right. It didn&#8217;t find a thing. The president is right about one thing: States refused to cooperate because elections officials &#8212; including those in Texas &#8212; couldn&#8217;t determine any rational cause for releasing the information.<\/p>\n<p>This looked for all the world like an effort to find a solution in search of a problem. The problem didn&#8217;t exist in the manner that the president alleged.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll make a friendly wager. No money involved: The Department of Homeland Security won&#8217;t find anything, either.<\/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 said this today in a statement released by the White House: \u201cDespite substantial evidence of voter fraud, many states have refused to provide the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity with basic information relevant to its inquiry. \u201cRather than engage in endless legal battles at taxpayer expense, today I signed an executive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27199\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Voter fraud commission is a goner &#8230; good!<\/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":[1424,1551,2139,2158,2239,5131],"class_list":["post-27199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-electoral-college","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-homeland-security","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-voter-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27199","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=27199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27201,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27199\/revisions\/27201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}