On Tuesday, the liberal media was up in arms after President Donald J. Trump repeated his belief that millions of people illegally cast votes in the 2016 election.
After much harassment from the left, President Trump has formally announced he will launch an investigation into the extent to which voter fraud impacted the results of the election.
In typical Trump fashion, he took to Twitter to announce the planned investigation:
I will be asking for a major investigation into VOTER FRAUD, including those registered to vote in two states, those who are illegal and….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2017
even, those registered to vote who are dead (and many for a long time). Depending on results, we will strengthen up voting procedures!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 25, 2017
President Trump has for months claimed that the primary reason he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton was due to the large number of illegal votes cast for his Democrat opponent:
In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 27, 2016
During Tuesday’s press briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer fended off questions from the liberal media and reiterated President Trump’s position on the impact of voter fraud in the election.
From The Daily Caller:
“As I said, I think the president has believed that for a while based on studies and information he has,” Spicer said. “There’s one that came out of Pew in 2008 that showed 14 percent of people who voted were non-citizens. There’s other studies that have been presented to him.”
“If 3 [million] to 5 million people voted illegally, that is a scandal of astronomical proportions,” one reporter said to Spicer. “Why not investigate?”
“Well, maybe we will,” Spicer said.
President Trump has clearly called the media’s bluff, by officially calling for an investigation into allegations of voter fraud, which he believes caused Hillary Clinton to win the popular vote in November.
Do you think President Trump made the right decision in calling for such an investigation? Do you think his claim that millions of illegal votes were cast for his opponent will be proven correct? Share your thoughts below!