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President Donald Trump, furthering his lie Wednesday that he lost the elections popular vote because millions cast ballots illegally, attacked the author of a study that failed to support fraud claims as groveling.
Trump and his administration frequently cite a2012 Pew study in support of his unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud. But the author, David Becker, has said that Trumps teammisconstrued his paperand that researchers found no cases of voter fraud.
When told by ABC News anchor David Muir that the study failed to show voter fraud, Trump responded by immediately attacking the author for groveling.
Trump used the same term to attack a disabled New York Times reporter, Serge Kovaleski, in 2015.
Heres the presidents full exchange with Muir:
MUIR: What you have been presented so far has been debunked. It has been called false.
TRUMP: Take a look at the Pew reports.
MUIR: I called the author of the Pew report last night and he told me that they found no evidence of voter fraud.
TRUMP: Really, then why did he write the report?
MUIR: He said no evidence of voter fraud.
TRUMP: Excuse me, then why did he write the report? According to Pew report, then hes groveling again. You know, I always talk about the reporters. They grovel when they wanna write something that you wanna hear, but not necessarily millions of people wanna hear or have to hear.
The Pew studyfocused on outdated voter rolls, which showed people still registered to vote after dying or moving. It found no evidence of people actually voting illegally.
Despite the lack of evidence, Trump has repeatedly claimed he lost the popular vote because 3 million to 5 million illegals voted in the November election. He repeated the lie in his first meeting with congressional leaders at the White House on Monday. On Wednesday, he announced a major investigation into voter fraud.
Of those votes cast, none of em come to me. None of em come to me. They would all be for the other side, Trump told Muir. But when you look at the people who are registered dead, illegal and two states, and some cases, maybe three states we have a lot to look into.
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)said on Wednesday he supported Trumps investigation, while admitting there was no evidence of this kind of widespread numbers that we have been hearing about.
Im sure there is some fraud, Ryan told MSNBC.If he believes that there is a problem to be looked at, the right thing is to get an investigation to get the facts.
Trumps basis for believing the election was plagued by widespreadvoter fraud, like much of his reasoning, seems based on questionable and exaggerated anecdotes.
The New York Times reportedon Wednesday that Trump told congressional leaders at Mondays meeting that a friend, the German golf champion Bernhard Langer, had complained to him about a crowd of voters who did not look as if they should be allowed to vote at his Florida polling place. Trump then threw out the names of Latin American countries that the voters might have come from, according to the paper.
Langers daughter disputed the story. She told the Times that Langer isnt a U.S. citizen, so he was ineligible to vote in the election. And, she added, he is not a friend of President Trumps, and I dont know why he would talk about him.
This article has been updated to include the Bernhard Langer anecdote reported by The New York Times.
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