This came out of the Trump bunker yesterday:
"The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history." Yes, Trump with 306 electoral votes is claiming that now.
Obama 2012 332 electoral votes.
Obama 2008 365 electoral votes.
Clinton 1996 379 electoral votes.
Clinton 1992 370 electoral votes.
Bush 1988 426 electoral votes.
Reagan 1984 525 electoral votes.
Reagan 1980 489 electoral votes.
Nixon 1972 520 electoral votes.
Johnson 1964 486 electoral votes.
Eisenhower 1956 457 electoral votes.
Eisenhower 1952 442 electoral votes.
FDR 1944 432 electoral votes.
FDR 1940 449 electoral votes.
lol, okay enough.
Trump is in 14th place in just the last 20 elections.
Maybe in the Special Olympics you get a prize for that.
It's pretty bad when you feel compelled to lie where the truth itself is satisfactory. THAT is pathological.
Lost in the above was the context whence it comes ---- this statement was part of the Rump reaction to the CIA's conclusion that
Russia deliberately to help Rump win the election.
>> The report highlights and exacerbates the increasingly fraught situation in which congressional Republicans find themselves with regard to Russia and Trump. By acknowledging and digging into the
increasing evidence that Russia helped — or at least attempted to help — tip the scales in Trump’s favor, they risk raising questions about whether Trump would have won without Russian intervention.
Trump, after all, won by
a margin of about 80,000 votes cast across three states, winning each of the decisive states by less than one percentage point. So even a slight influence could have plausibly made the difference, though we'll never be able to prove it one way or another.
The Post's report cited Republicans who expressed skepticism about the available evidence when presented with it in September, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
... In addition, any GOP effort to dig into the matter risks antagonizing the president-elect, who has said flatly that he doesn’t believe Russia interfered with the election,
despite receiving intelligence briefings to the contrary. And he's proved more than willing to go after fellow Republicans who run afoul of him.
On the other hand, if Republicans play down the issue, they risk giving a pass to an antagonistic foreign power that significant majorities of Americans and members of Congress do not trust and which, if the evidence is accurate, wields significant power to wage successful cyberwarfare with the United States.
Already, House Democrats have begun pushing for
something akin to the 9/11 Commission to look into allegations of Russian meddling. During the campaign, they pushed for hearings on the same issue.
Until this week, they'd been unable to get much buy-in from congressional Republicans. But Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) voiced support for a probe on Wednesday, and now Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) says he is working with Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) on a wide-ranging Senate probe,
as The Post’s Karoun Demirjian reported Thursday. <<
--- all of which presents an interesting quagmire:
>> Many Republicans are undoubtedly concerned about this. But as long as Trump is holding fast to the idea that this is all made up in an effort to undermine him, this whole thing could reinforce the long-standing chasm within the GOP, with him and his base pitted against establishment Republicans who will (again) be made to look like they’re trying to take down their outsider president-elect. And you can bet that’ll be how Trump pitches it.
It all presents a possibly inauspicious start for the GOP Congress in the Trump era: a potential Trump vs. congressional-Republicans-battle over the same election that surprisingly installed him as president. <<
