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发帖数: 29576 | 1 Trump’s Voter Fraud Example? A Troubled Tale With Bernhard Langer
By GLENN THRUSH
JANUARY 25, 2017
WASHINGTON — On Monday, President Trump gathered House and Senate leaders
in the State Dining Room for a get-to-know-you reception, served them tiny
meatballs and pigs-in-a-blanket, and quickly launched into a story meant to
illustrate what he believes to be rampant, unchecked voter fraud.
Mr. Trump kicked off the meeting, participants said, by retelling his
debunked claim that he would have won the popular vote if not for the three
million to five million ballots cast by “illegals.” He followed it up with
a Twitter post early Wednesday calling for a major investigation into voter
fraud.
When one of the Democrats protested, Mr. Trump said he was told a story by
“the very famous golfer, Bernhard Langer,” whom he described as a friend,
according to three staff members who were in the room for the meeting.
In the emerging Trump era, the story was a memorable example, for the
legislators and the country, of how an off-the-cuff yarn — unverifiable and
of confusing origin — became a prime policy mover for a president whose
fact-gathering owes more to the oral tradition than the written word.
The three witnesses recall the story this way: Mr. Langer, a 59-year-old
native of Bavaria, Germany — a winner of the Masters twice and of more than
100 events on major professional golf tours around the world — was
standing in line at a polling place near his home in Florida on Election Day
, the president explained, when an official informed Mr. Langer he would not
be able to vote.
Ahead of and behind Mr. Langer were voters who did not look as if they
should be allowed to vote, Mr. Trump said, according to the staff members —
but they were nonetheless permitted to cast provisional ballots. The
president threw out the names of Latin American countries that the voters
might have come from.
Mr. Langer, whom he described as a supporter, left feeling frustrated, he
said.
The anecdote, the aides said, was greeted with silence, and Mr. Trump was
prodded to change the subject by Reince Priebus, the White House chief of
staff, and Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas.
Just one problem: Mr. Langer, who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., is a German
citizen with permanent residence status in the United States who is, by law,
barred from voting, according to Mr. Langer’s daughter Christina.
“He is a citizen of Germany,” she said, when reached on her father’s
cellphone. “He is not a friend of President Trump’s, and I don’t know why
he would talk about him.”
She said her father was “very busy” and would not be able to answer any
questions.
But a senior White House staff member, who was not at the Monday reception
but has heard Mr. Trump tell the story, said Mr. Langer saw Mr. Trump in
Florida during the Thanksgiving break and told him the story of a friend of
Mr. Langer’s who had been blocked from voting.
Either way, the tale left its mark on Mr. Trump, who is known to act on
anecdote, and on Wednesday redoubled his efforts to build a border wall and
crack down on immigrants crossing the border from Mexico.
The story, the aide added, had made a big impression on Mr. Trump. | h*******n
发帖数: 8906 | 2 NYT好切腹自杀了 床铺大选后期就一直在说作弊的事 他家今天才听说？ | a******e
发帖数: 5411 | | R**********9
发帖数: 1487 | 4 对呀，还编了这么一个不靠谱的故事。其实好多研究表明大选选民舞弊肯定存在。别的
不说，我们加州非移可以拿驾照，选民登记也很简单，也没人查，非移不投票才怪了。
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【在 h*******n 的大作中提到】
: NYT好切腹自杀了 床铺大选后期就一直在说作弊的事 他家今天才听说？
| G****e
发帖数: 11198 | | T******g
发帖数: 21328 | 6 都是拿钱办事的婊子
【在 G****e 的大作中提到】
: 记者队伍素质堪忧。
| d******y
发帖数: 2787 | 7 这不叫fake news啥才算啊
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【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
: Trump’s Voter Fraud Example? A Troubled Tale With Bernhard Langer
: By GLENN THRUSH
: JANUARY 25, 2017
: WASHINGTON — On Monday, President Trump gathered House and Senate leaders
: in the State Dining Room for a get-to-know-you reception, served them tiny
: meatballs and pigs-in-a-blanket, and quickly launched into a story meant to
: illustrate what he believes to be rampant, unchecked voter fraud.
: Mr. Trump kicked off the meeting, participants said, by retelling his
: debunked claim that he would have won the popular vote if not for the three
: million to five million ballots cast by “illegals.” He followed it up with
| T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 8 从民党国会领袖听来的，几个国会领袖和老头见面就给讲这么个故事，当场傻眼
: 对呀，还编了这么一个不靠谱的故事。其实好多研究表明大选选民舞弊肯定存在
。别的
: 不说，我们加州非移可以拿驾照，选民登记也很简单，也没人查，非移不投票才
怪了。
: ★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 13
【在 R**********9 的大作中提到】
: 对呀，还编了这么一个不靠谱的故事。其实好多研究表明大选选民舞弊肯定存在。别的
: 不说，我们加州非移可以拿驾照，选民登记也很简单，也没人查，非移不投票才怪了。
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