{"id":132624,"date":"2017-01-24T06:48:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T13:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/the-insecure-president.html"},"modified":"2017-01-24T06:48:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T13:48:59","slug":"the-insecure-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/24\/the-insecure-president.html","title":{"rendered":"The Insecure President"},"content":{"rendered":"

This isn't making a big public speech, or an off the cuff tweet. This is taking the opportunity to meet with leaders of Congress, in private, for the first time … and kicking things off with a lengthy discussion of how he Really, Truly, Absolutely Won the Popular Vote (except for all those millions and millions of illegals).<\/p>\n

'Two people familiar with the meeting said Trump spent about 10 minutes at the start of the bipartisan gathering rehashing the campaign. He also told them that between 3 million and 5 million illegal votes caused him to lose the popular vote.<\/i><\/p>\n

The discussion about Trump's election victory and his claim that he would have won the popular vote was confirmed by a third person familiar with the meeting.<\/i><\/p>\n

Who does this? Who insists on an assertion that is unbacked by any facts, that is rejected by experts, that isn't even meant to garner support amongst his xenophobic supporters in the general public? Is he that<\/i> insecure that he can't accept winning the Presidency<\/i> if he can't have won it by the Bestest and Mostest Ever in Every Category?<\/p>\n

This is not normal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nWithout evidence, Trump tells lawmakers 3 million to 5 million illegal ballots cost him the popular vote<\/a><\/span>
\nThere is no evidence of widespread illegal voting in the 2016 election.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This isn't making a big public speech, or an off the cuff tweet. This is taking the opportunity to meet with leaders of Congress, in private, for the first time … and kicking things off with a lengthy discussion of how he Really, Truly, Absolutely Won the Popular Vote (except for all those millions and … Continue reading “The Insecure President”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":132406,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/21\/tweetizen-trump-2016-12-21-i-won-why-doesnt-anybody-believe-me.html","url_meta":{"origin":132624,"position":0},"title":"*Tweetizen Trump – 2016-12-21 "I won! 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