The entire “alt right” white supremacist movement has never been too bothered by massive contradictions. Just ask the authoritarian billionaire white nationalist who is going to save America’s working class—if you can catch him between meetings with other billionaires at his private golf club or in his gold-plated office.
So perhaps the inherent ouroborotude of their current position isn’t causing them screaming pain.
Donald Trump's transition spokesman on Monday deflected questions about the President-elect's false claims that "millions" of undocumented voters cost him the popular vote, instead criticizing the media's coverage of recount efforts.
There were millions of illegal votes, so stop the recount! Boom! That last part was the exploding heads of those few Americans who paused to think too much about what had just been said.
On a call with reporters, NPR's Tamara Keith asked Jason Miller to provide evidence for Trump's unsubstantiated allegations that he lost the popular vote due to massive noncitizen voter fraud. Miller did not address Trump's specific allegations, pivoting to attack the recount effort that Stein is pushing in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
We have no evidence for our wild claims, Tamara. Now, will you please, please just criticize these other people for methodically looking for evidence?
Actually, the Trump campaign has pointed at a study to support Trump’s contentions of millions of illegal voters. But there’s a slight problem ...
Miller’s deflection:
"In particular I'd point to the 2014 Washington Post study that indicated that more than 14 percent of noncitizens in both the 2008 and 2010 elections have indicated they were registered to vote.”
Which would be a point … except that there’s a problem with this 2014 “study.” Mainly that it was never a study in the first place.
The Washington Post story that Miller referenced actually was an op-ed that put forth the flimsy theory that President Barack Obama only won North Carolina in 2008 due to voter fraud. The op-ed based its conclusions on speculative data, rather than any reports from the election itself, and was subsequently rebutted by three separate pieces published in the same newspaper. Its findings were further questioned by a peer-reviewed article.
So the Trump campaign’s unsubstantiated claims of fraud in 2016 are based on unsubstantiated claims of fraud in 2014, using unsubstantiated claims from 2008.
It’s turtles all the way down … where “turtles” = “lies.”