fraud in 2016 out of 138 million votes cast. four instances, and all four of them were people who voted for donald trump. so, this is a crisis that he wants to make up, but i think the best actually, it was kind of funny today, chris. the best part of the day was twitter when he reacted to his statement that you need to have an i.d. to purchase cereal. they had a lot of fun with it. what kind of cereal are you eating, rick santorum, that you need i.d. for? i think he meant cold medicine. yeah, everybody does when they eat cereal. who doesn t mean cold medicine when you say cereal, you know? the other day i went to get a box of lucky charms and i wound up downing a half a bottle of robitussin before i realized it. they were magically delicious. it s kind of funny, but it s kind of sad. it really is. the forgiveness and the defense that you provide for this president you re not alone. and i get that you want to get to larger principles.
particular scenario that was put out by info wars was actually raided by politifact as pants on fire false. the center for brennan justice has done these studies forever and they found .00003% of votes are fraudulent. .0003%. there were four instances of fraud in at least documented fraud in 2016 out of 138 million votes cast. four instances, and all four of them were people who voted for donald trump. so, this is a crisis that he wants to make up, but i think the best actually, it was kind of funny today, chris. the best part of the day was twitter when he reacted to his statement that you need to have an i.d. to purchase cereal. they had a lot of fun with it. what kind of cereal are you eating, rick santorum, that you
with, quote, almost surgical precision. and which prevented african-american people from voting in the 2014 election. but all senator sessions managed to say was, quote, every election needs to be managed closely and we need to ensure that there is integrity in it, and i do believe we regularly have fraudulent activities occur during election cycles. senator sessions believes we regularly have fraudulent activities during our election cycles. that might explain why he didn t talk with the president-elect in any depth about his claim that millions of fraudulent votes were cast. senator sessions perhaps didn t find it alarming because he believes there is a kernel of truth in that claim. but there is not. that claim has been fact checked to death. nearly 138 million votes were cast in the 2016 election.
described it as targeting african-americans with, quote, almost surgical precision. and preventing african-americans from voting in the 2014 election. but all senator sessions managed to say was every election needs to be managed closely and we need to ensure that there is integrity in it, and i do believe we regularly have fraudulent activities occur during election cycles. senator sessions believes we regularly have fraudulent activities during our election cycles. that might explain why he didn t talk with the president-elect in any depth about his claim that millions of fraud lulent votes were cast. senator sessions didn t find it alarming because he believes there s a kernel of truth in that claim, but there is not. that claim has been fact-checked to death. nearly 138 million votes were
was no investigation and donald trump tweeted this about the investigation on the facts so folks know it and can judge for themselves when you look at the balance lots cast, 138 million, 138.8 million four cases in-person voter fraud and we re not aware of any evidence that supports the voter fraud claims made by president trump on the study. it was a 2012 study and only about records, about voter registration and the author of it has said that he can confirm the report that he wrote made no findings about voter fraud. so that briefly runs through the facts we have at our disposal. why that s important is because the tweet you just showed, andrea, the breaking news here this morning is an attempt by donald trump to cite the fact that there are people on voting role s who shouldn t vote and a