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Friday, November 16, 2018

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Via Ed Brayton at Dispatches from the Culture Wars, this little tidbit -- Trump's latest rationale for "illegal voters":

In an interview with conservative outlet The Daily Caller, the president claimed that “potentially illegal votes” were responsible for Republicans candidates’ losses, which he claimed resulted from voters returning to their homes or vehicles, exchanging clothes and returning to voting places.

“The Republicans don’t win and that’s because of potentially illegal votes,” Trump told the Caller.

“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,” he added.

As Brayton points out, it doesn't work that way: you have to prove who you are, and when you receive your ballot you're checked off on the list.

Digby has a transcript of the full interview here, if you can stomach it. It's really pretty wild.

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