The Washington Post wrote:President Trump was in West Virginia to talk about tax reform, so, naturally, he began talking about the results of the 2016 election, immigration, obstruction of justice and his idea that millions of people cast illegal votes.
The path he took to discussing voter fraud went like this. (This is not made up.)
His administration is working on a new version of NAFTA.
But Mexico was helpful on curtailing the caravan of immigrants coming up from Central America.
They have strong laws on immigration, but America has weak laws, thanks to Democrats like Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.).
We’ve going to get tougher laws and the wall.
One tougher law will deal with “chain migration.”
That excludes a number of other riffs, including on sanctuary cities, “liberating” towns from the dreaded MS-13, “obstruction of justice” by the mayor of Oakland, Calif., and, naturally, rape.
But this idea of chain migration was his jumping-off point. He talked about a terrorist attack in New York City in October that he blamed on the policy. Democrats like chain migration, though, he said, because they think those new immigrants are going to vote Democrat.
“They are doing it for that reason, because they aren’t going to be voting with us for the most part. A lot of them aren’t going to be voting,” he said. “A lot of times, it doesn’t matter, because in many places, like California, the same person votes many times. You probably heard about that.”
“They always like to say, ‘Oh, that’s a conspiracy theory!’ ” he continued. “Not a conspiracy theory, folks. Millions and millions of people, and it’s very hard because the state guards their records. They don’t want to see it.”
Here we have the best kind of conspiracy theory, the kind that can't be refuted. If California is indeed suppressing the information that thousands of Californians are voting multiple times, voilà! There it is! You can't prove it if it is part of the coverup. There's a coverup so massive it can't be uncovered. So if the point Trump wishes to make cannot be proven, it just shows that it's part of the coverup.
Of course in order to believe this you would have to believe that there is a massive simultaneous conspiracy between Californians casting literally millions of illegal votes, within a system of simultaneously adding millions of duplicate votes that no one can describe. The California the Secretary of State, in charge of certifying the elections, would have to be complicit as well. Because the backbone of the democratic process is one man one vote, all of these people are essentially guilty of treason against the United States. A woman in Texas was recently sentenced to 5 years in prison for voting while on probation for a felony. How long should Alex Padilla, the California Secretary of State, spend in jail?
Of course it is all smoke and mirrors. If there were an ounce of proof, this would be a job for the Justice Department. There are plenty of right wing investigative journalists, and plenty of right wing money to fund those journalists, and they would happily rip the cover off the biggest voter fraud story in history. The Koch Brothers would probably give you the State of Montana. And yet has anyone come up with a plausible (without Aluminum Foil hats) way that this could happen?
Hello, anyone? Not you, Alex Jones, but anyone else? Are you afraid that Jerry Brown is going to bump you off?
I always knew Trump would be an awful President, but two character traits have continued to astound me: The incredible, incessant need of his insatiable ego, and his willingness to destroy anything, even faith in our institutions, if it stands in the path of said ego.
