“The Republicans don’t win and that’s because of potentially illegal votes,” the president claimed during an interview with the Daily Caller, a conservative news and opinion website, on Wednesday. “When people get in line that have absolutely no right to vote and they go around in circles. Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again. Nobody takes anything. It’s really a disgrace what’s going on.”
Trump provided no evidence to his claims, nor did the White House immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
As outlets likeThe Washington Postand others have reported, there isno evidence of widespread voter fraudin the United States. Trump’s own special commission to study voter fraud in the 2016 election was disbanded without finding any evidence, after some states refused to provide data.
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The Daily Caller also asked the president about Brenda Snipes, the election supervisor from Florida’s Broward County.
“She should have been removed,” Trump told The Daily Caller of Snipes. “I think she should have been removed in the middle of this mix-up.”
“She’s a disaster,” Trump added. “You look at her past, she’s a disaster. Even with me. I won Florida and — you remember? That area, Broward, didn’t come in. You can only put in so many votes, although she may change that system.”
He added: “When they call this woman incompetent, they’re wrong. She’s very competent but in a bad way.”
Snipes has denied any wrongdoing,according to NBC News.
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In the lead-up to the Nov. 6 midterm elections,Trump was accused of voter intimidation after he tweeted using all-caps about illegal voting.
Trump reportedly doubled down on his claim of rampant illegal voting at a rallyin Cleveland, Ohi, according to theWashington Post. He said to reporters, “There are a lot of people — a lot of people — my opinion, and based on proof — that try and get in illegally and actually vote illegally. So we just want to let them know that there will be prosecutions at the highest level.”
Reacted one woman on Twitter: “In my 78 years I have never ever seen the President of the U.S. threaten voter intimidation like this.”
source: people.com
