Why is Donald Trump Covering Up ALIEN ABDUCTIONS?
“We’re gonna launch an investigation to find out. And then the next time, and I will say this: Of those votes cast, none of ’em come to me, none of ’em come to me. They would all be for the other side. None of ’em come to me. But when you look at the people that are registered: dead, illegal and in two states, and in some cases maybe three states. We have a lot to look into.” — Donald J. Trump
I regret to inform you that the nincompoop quoted above is President of the United States. When told that his claim of voter fraud had been debunked, the congenital fantasist-in-chief cited a 2012 Pew study. When the interview pointed out that the author of that study, David Becker, said they had found no evidence of fraud, the wack-doodle accused Becker of “groveling.” Say what? Here is the transcript:
Muir: You say you’re going to launch an investigation into (voter fraud).
Trump: Sure. Done.
Muir: What you have presented so far has been debunked. It’s been called false —
Trump: No it hasn’t. Take a look at the Pew report.
Muir: I called the author of the Pew report last night. He told me they found no evidence of voter fraud.
Trump: Really? Then why did he write the report?
Muir: He said no evidence of voter fraud.
Trump: Excuse me. Then why did he write the report? Look at the Pew Report. Then he’s groveling again. You know, I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they wanna write something you wanna hear. But not necessarily millions of people want to hear, or have to hear
Muir: So you’ve launched an investigation.
Trump: We’re gonna launch an investigation to find out. And then the next time, and I will say this: Of those votes cast, none of ’em come to me, none of ’em come to me. They would all be for the other side. None of ’em come to me. But when you look at the people that are registered: dead, illegal and in two states, and in some cases maybe three states. We have a lot to look into.
This is not even about lying. It is about mental incompetence at lying. The jackass refutes his own alibi two sentences after presenting it.
The Pew report is not the only research paper on voter fraud out there. There are two others. It only gets worse.
One paper by Richman and Earnest was based on an online survey of citizens. It included a question about citizenship. Nearly 19.000 people completed the survey. A relative handful — probably fewer than 100 — non-citizens took the survey. The minuscule number of people who reported both voting and being non-citizens 4 (four!) is extremely likely to be entirely a classification error resulting from less than .1% of the 18,878 citizens checking the wrong box for citizenship status. In short, Richman and Earnest’s estimate was based on a very small sample of non-citizens and was probably entirely an error artifact. The methodological flaw was described in detail in two-page 2015 article titled, “The perils of cherry picking low frequency events in large sample surveys.”
Let me repeat the substance of the Richman and Earnest finding: 4 people among nearly 20,000 who completed an online survey identified themselves as non-citizens who voted in either 2010 or 2012. The statistical likelihood of that having resulted from a citizenship classification error is virtually 1 out of 1.
There is a third study of voter fraud that is worth mentioning, “Alien abduction and voter impersonation in the 2012 US general election,” It employed a technique called “survey list experiment” to try to elicit survey responses regarding sensitive or illegal behaviors that people may ordinarily be reluctant to report on a survey. Instead of admitting specific actions, respondents are only asked to report a number of items from a list. Sensitive items are tested for by having a control group that is given only innocuous items while the experimental group is given the innocuous items plus a sensitive one.
The list experiment found that about 2.5% of their sample reported have voted under a name that wasn’t their own. Although a relatively small number, this might seem to be a significant factor in a close election, especially if the impersonations were predominantly on behalf of one party. However, the researchers argued that the result is most likely to be explained by respondent error. Most of the respondents reporting impersonation is accounted for by respondents choosing the maximum number, possibly to complete the survey more quickly. To test whether choosing the maximum number explained their voter impersonation results, the researchers conducted a second experiment, this time including an “impossible event,” namely being abducted by an alien.
The second experiment found that more people reported having been abducted by aliens than having voted using a name that wasn’t theirs. In fact, nearly the same percentage of respondents (2.4%) reported having been abducted by aliens and being audited by the IRS during the past twelve months as had reported having voted under a false name (2.5%). This was despite the fact that the IRS audit rate for 2013 was a little less than 1%! In short, survey respondent were two and half times as likely to be both abducted by aliens and audited by the IRS in the same year as the general public was to be audited by the IRS. Period.
Donald Trump claims that he is under audit by the IRS. Donald Trump claims that there was massive voter fraud in the 2016 which denied him the popular vote victory. Donald Trump claims that the Pew report is evidence for his accusation of voter fraud. But notably, Donald Trump is SILENT on the vital national security aspect of this whole episode: ALIEN ABDUCTION!
Why is Donald Trump covering up ALIEN ABDUCTIONS?
The fallout from this is going to be tougher voter registration as put together by Repubs.
They can stop people from voting but they can’t stop people from NOT WORKING. That’s why I say it is time to start preparing the General Strike. Sure, it’s a long shot but it is really the ONLY shot that isn’t a football held by Lucy.
Sandwichman:
I think mostly they would harass people and make it difficult to vote. Stopping people just forces them to go home. People remember harassment. Yes you are right on a general strike, a unity we have not seen in a while.
Yeah, I think that is the end game with those states that have not complied with real ID on their drivers licenses going to use only passports for voter registration–how many poor people and people of color will have passports? The GOP will lose votes too but not as many as the Dems. Not to mention while the media obsesses about this alternate reality in the mind of our President, he has gagged federal agencies talking about the real reality and is proceeding ahead with stands on immigration and torture which were unlawful, are ineffective and have at least some bipartisan opposition but nobody is willing to stand up
Give him time. He will soon reveal the secrets of Area 51.
Sandwichman,
Vote fraud exists, and the evidence is much better than your self reported online survey refutation. With incredibly lax enforcement how could it not? I mean “dead people voting in Chicago” is an enduring punch line.
The question is “how much”? Without a comprehensive investigation, we don’t know, so all the Dem ridicule and protestation makes it seem like you have something to hide. Let’s just see……I mean don’t you want only legal, living US citizens to vote?
Hi Sammy:
Do you see CoRev around> I do not either. Sandwich man booted him. In 2007 AB Gonzalez fired 7 Dem and Repub Federal Prosecutors. Remember that one?
“I 2007, the Justice Department was upended by scandal because it had pursued a partisan agenda on voting, under the guise of rooting out suspected “voter fraud.” Its actions during the George W. Bush administration were well outside the bounds of rules and accepted norms of neutral law enforcement. In pursuing this agenda, DOJ political leadership fired seven well-respected U.S. Attorneys, dismissing some top Republican prosecutors because they had refused to prosecute nonexistent voter fraud. Top officials hired career staff members using a political loyalty test, perverted the work of the nonpartisan Voting Section toward partisan ends, and exerted pressure on states and an independent government agency to fall in line with an anti-voting rights agenda.
Ultimately, the effort backfired badly. The U.S. Attorney firings touched off a wave of investigations that exposed just how partisan the Justice Department had become and how far it had strayed from its mission of neutral law enforcement. The result was the worst scandal to hit the Department since Watergate. The Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, was forced to resign, as were other top DOJ officials. It also helped drive Karl Rove, President Bush’s chief White House strategist, from his job. Moreover, the Justice Department not only lost credibility with Congress, but it also lost in the courts, where judges repeatedly rejected the untenable anti-voter legal theories it had urged.”
Ask Jeff Sessions what happened to him in 1986. The Justice Department’s Voter Fraud Scandal: Lessons
If you want to be silly, please be silly somewhere else. Voter fraud does not exist to the extent the man with the orange hair believes in his head. It is less than 1 thousandth of 1 percent. There are voting irregularities cause by poll workers; but, those are not in the same league.
Yes. And it was in the context of the Congressional investigation of the attorney firings that the Karl Rove emails went missing. EMAILS! Wouldn’t it be nice if their was an opposition party in Congress with historical memory to make this point rather than leaving it up to random bloggers and Wikipedia?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Newsweek, September 12 2016:
Hi run,
Yes it has been a long time. I hold no ill will. I don’t know what the results of the investigation will be. It should be relatively straightforward: what are the illegal votes? what are the double votes? what are the dead votes? We should purge them from the system, shouldn’t we?
He’s gaslighting. He knows he is lying. He wants you to call him a jackass and get totally frustrated. It’s a way of controlling.
Michael:
Welcome to AB. First posts always go to moderation.
Sammy,
Been there, done that.
Seriously, have you ever met anyone who at their parents funeral thought they really had to get on cancelling their voter registration? I have moved from one state to another 9 times in my life. I have never cancelled my registration. And strangely enough, I have never thought to travel back to those other states and vote in an election.
Gotta love the idea that in a country where less than 60% of the people vote, there are millions that line up to vote a couple of times.
Pure, utter, bs. And only imbeciles can think this is an issue.
And known to be bs for decades and decades.