When the White House lies about lying, there's a problem | MSNBC

 





 "In his first formal meeting with congressional leaders this week, Donald Trump repeated one of his favorite lies:
it may look like he won the presidency despite losing the popular vote,
but he secretly won the popular vote – because 3 million to 5 million
“illegals” voted in the election for his opponent.

By any sane measure, the claim is completely bonkers, and yet, the White House refuses to walk it back.

The White House doubled down on President Donald Trump’s widely
debunked claim that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016
presidential election, costing Trump the popular vote.

“The
president does believe that,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer
told reporters on Tuesday, just one day after pledging to tell the
public “the facts as I know them.” “He’s stated that before, I think he
has stated his concerns of voter fraud and people voting illegally
during the campaign and continues to maintain that belief based on
studies and evidence people have presented to him.”

And what, pray tell, are those “studies and evidence”? The
struggling press secretary, whose credibility is already badly damaged,
told reporters, “I think there’s been studies. There’s one that came out
of Pew in 2008 that showed 14 percent of people who voted were
non-citizens.”

That, too, is a claim that Trump World has repeatedly embraced, despite being completely wrong.

What
Americans are confronted with is a new president who is comfortable
lying, backed up by White House aides who are equally comfortable lying
about lying.


When the White House lies about lying, there's a problem | MSNBC