.MaddowBlog: Florida election conspiracy touted by Trump unravels into nothing
A year and a half later, the president's claims have been exposed as total nonsense.A Trump election conspiracy theory has fallen apart after Florida's law enforcement agency said it had found no widespread voter fraud in the 2018 races for Senate and governor.... [N]either Trump's unnamed "lawyers" nor the Florida Department of Law Enforcement found evidence of a "big corruption scandal.
I don't imagine anyone will find these results especially surprising. It was obvious to most observers at the time that the president was peddling transparent nonsense, which he appeared to be making up as he went along. By all appearances, Trump simply made up a voting-fraud fantasy and presented it to the public as if it were real -- indifferent to the pernicious effects of a president trying to undermine public confidence in his own country's electoral system.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement determined that Trump was wrong? The word"duh" keeps coming to mind. But let's not miss the ongoing relevant context: this same president is now speaking with great confidence about his new"fraud" theories, many of which include condemnations of voting by mail -- a topic TrumpThe evaporation of his ridiculous claims in Florida should serve as a reminder: when it comes to the integrity of elections, the president doesn't have the foggiest idea what he's talking about.
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