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.

President Donald Trump repeated his unsupported claim that at least 3 million illegal immigrants cast ballots for Hillary Clinton, calling for a major investigation into voter fraud despite arguments by his own lawyers that no fraud took place in three states he carried.

Pennsylvania was one of those states.

In response to a recount effort by Green Party candidate Jill Stein following the election, Trump filed court documents stating that "there is no evidence - or even an allegation - that any tampering with Pennsylvania's voting systems actually occurred."

The court document cites Pennsylvania Secretary of State Pedro A. Cortes who said voting systems were "secure" and criticized contrary suggestions as "uninformed and dangerous." Those comments had been made in response to claims by Trump that Pennsylvania's election results could be rigged by voter fraud such as people casting ballots in the name of dead people still on voter rolls.

Those comments were similar to what Cortes told the Reading Eagle in a November report examining the possibility of voter fraud in which the secretary called the accusations of a rigged election false and disheartening.

pacino wrote:they seem to not care; their goal is to just keep their supporters.

The suit makes several references to the importance to Trump’s presidential ambitions of getting the hotel open. The complaint says the October opening was set for just before the election “to provide an opportunity for positive press coverage for Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign.”

Freestate says the Trump Organization has offered to pay only one-third of the project change and acceleration costs the contractor incurred. The suit contends that Trump’s businesses have a practice of unfairly pressuring contractors to accept reduced payments on projects.

Up to 20 countries have indicated support for the Netherlands’ plan to set up an international safe abortion fund to plug a $600m funding gap caused by Donald Trump’s reinstatement of the “global gag rule”, the Dutch international development minister, Lilianne Ploumen, said on Wednesday.

Ploumen took soundings from a number of her colleagues around the world on Tuesday evening after the Netherlands said it would act to mitigate the impact on hundreds of charities around the world.

The “global gag rule”, also known as the Mexico City policy, was reimposed by Trump on Monday, and bans US federal funding for NGOs in foreign countries that provide abortion services or abortion advocacy.

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CalvinBall wrote:The trump anecdote from Bernhard langher is something.

The insane racism and lack of sense it makes aside...The most insane part to me is that it didn't even happen to Langher. It was Langher relaying a story about someone he knew. But trumps ego had to change the story so he could tell it in a room full of congress. You can't be like "Bernard once told me..." it had to be trump the big star with a famous friend. Complete madness. Personality disorder

This shit is insane

Guy on my bowling team who voted for trump has already abandoned him. I guess he thought trump was playing a character. Sigh.

that's a good sign, though.

Had a conversation with my mom this week, where she was half-heartedly defending him (You have to admit that the media wants to make him look bad), and I was gently pointing out the repeated ridiculousness. It's the media's job to cover the president and hold him accountable to the american people. That's what they do, and it doesnt have to be antagonistic. In particular, I was pointing out that it made no sense to question the inauguration attendance figures. It would have been trivial to argue that it's no surprise that a city that votes 90% Democrat, with a majority minority population, would turn out in large numbers for the first black, Democratic President. He could have followed it up with a joke about his supporters in middle class cannot easily take off from work, and it's a non-story.

She said "I hope I don't regret voting for him...."

It's been 1 week. The 70 year old child that you voted into the White House is not going to change.

Side note: I made an argument that, in spite of the fact I never voted for Obama, he is an above average President. Giving 20 million people health insurance that didnt have it... it's not a trivial change. Historians will look favorably on him, despite the fact that he didnt do many of the things that people thought he would do (get out of Iraq faster, close Guantanamo, etc). Yes, this is what the world is coming to, where I am praising Obama's legacy. Amazing.

In a remarkable Tuesday night floor speech, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), the chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, praised the physical and mental powers of President Trump and encouraged people to get “unvarnished” news directly from the president, not from the news media.

“Just think what the media would be saying about President Trump if he were a Democrat,” Smith said during the evening time reserved for one-minute speeches. “He has tremendous energy. He campaigned for 18 months, puts in 15-hour days, and has the stamina of a bull elephant, like Teddy Roosevelt. He is courageous and fearless. Given the amount of hate directed his way, no doubt he constantly receives death threats, but that doesn’t curtail his public appearances or seem to worry him in the least.”

The rest of Smith’s speech included praise for how Trump involved his children in decisions — a subject of some controversy among progressive legal groups — and a laundry list of accomplishments he credited to the president, including a spike in the consumer confidence index.

“The national liberal media won’t print that, or air it, or post it,” Smith said. “Better to get your news directly from the president. In fact, it might be the only way to get the unvarnished truth.”

The Native American Party, renamed the American Party in 1855 and commonly known as the Know Nothing movement, was an American political party that operated nationally in the mid-1850s.

The movement arose in response to an influx of migrants and promised to "purify" American politics by limiting or ending the influence of Irish Catholics and other immigrants, thus reflecting nativist and anti-Catholic sentiment. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, whom they saw as hostile to Republican values and as being controlled by the Pope. Mainly active from 1854 to 1856, the movement strove to curb immigration and naturalization but met with little success. Membership was limited to Protestant men. There were few prominent leaders, and the largely middle-class membership was divided over the issue of slavery.

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In a remarkable Tuesday night floor speech, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), the chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, praised the physical and mental powers of President Trump and encouraged people to get “unvarnished” news directly from the president, not from the news media.

“Just think what the media would be saying about President Trump if he were a Democrat,” Smith said during the evening time reserved for one-minute speeches. “He has tremendous energy. He campaigned for 18 months, puts in 15-hour days, and has the stamina of a bull elephant, like Teddy Roosevelt. He is courageous and fearless. Given the amount of hate directed his way, no doubt he constantly receives death threats, but that doesn’t curtail his public appearances or seem to worry him in the least.”

The rest of Smith’s speech included praise for how Trump involved his children in decisions — a subject of some controversy among progressive legal groups — and a laundry list of accomplishments he credited to the president, including a spike in the consumer confidence index.

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