Trump was going to investigate voter fraud. What happened? By Elizabeth Landers, CNN Updated 7:17

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Looks like they hope the big mouth blabbering of Trump will just fade away.





http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/21/politics/donald-trump-voter-fraud-mike-pence/index.html



Trump was going to investigate voter fraud. What happened?

By Elizabeth Landers, CNN

Updated 7:17 PM ET, Fri April 21, 2017

Trump presses fraud claim, provides no proof
Story highlights

There is no immediate timeline to investigate voter fraud
Spicer said there would not be an executive order

Washington (CNN)The White House does not have any immediate timeline for President Donald Trump's voter fraud investigation and the commission he was adamant about creating during his first few weeks in office, even as the administration approaches the end of its 100 days.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer told CNN that he expects something on the commission within the "next week or two, but I don't want to get ahead of that."


Spicer said there would not be an executive order (as the President originally wanted) and in lieu of that there would be a commission headed up by Vice President Mike Pence. Spicer did say that the vice president will still be "very involved" in the investigation.

Another senior administration official said that the formation of the commission "has not been a topic of a lot of conversation" in the White House, and said it was not something discussed recently with the vice president either.

NH Republican: Voter fraud claims 'shameful' 01:39


Trump has repeatedly asserted, without providing any evidence, that three to five million people voted illegally for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election -- similar to the margin of Clinton's popular vote victory over Trump.
"In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally," he tweeted in late November.

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1. This from a few days ago may have something to do with it:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016183538
Federal judge orders Interstate Crosscheck architect Kobach to share docs from meeting w Trump

A little background before the main article:
Kris Kobach, KS Secretary of State, advisor to Trump on immigration during the campaign and member of Trump’s transition team, is the architect of Interstate Crosscheck, the software program used to purge millions from voter registration databases on the grounds that it is keeping people from voting twice. Crosscheck is now being used by 30 states.

https://thevotingnews.com/tag/interstate-crosscheck/

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-gops-stealth-war-against-voters-w435890

…”top-level Trump staffers have pointed to the Kansas official as the source behind the president’s unsubstantiated claim that millions of illegal voters enabled Democrat Hillary Clinton to win the popular vote.” (See link to article below)

Now for the main article:
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article145076069.html#storylink=cpy

Federal judge orders Kobach to share documents from his meeting with Trump
Kansas City Star
Bryan Lowry
April 17, 2017

In November 2016, the top election official in Kansas claimed that millions voted illegally in 2016, but can't point to hard evidence to support that.

A federal magistrate judge has ordered Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to disclose documents outlining a strategic plan he presented to then-President-elect Donald Trump in November, a decision that could have ramifications from Topeka to Washington.

Kobach, who served on Trump’s transition team, was photographed in November holding a stack of papers labeled as a strategic plan for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. That plan, as revealed by the photograph, included the recommendations that the U.S. block all refugees from Syria and engage in “extreme vetting” of immigrants from countries considered high-risk.
It also contained a reference to voter rolls, which was partially obscured by Kobach’s hand in the photograph.

The American Civil Liberties Union sought the documents’ disclosure as part of an ongoing lawsuit over a Kansas law that requires voters to provide proof of citizenship, such as a birth certificate or passport, when they register to vote. The ACLU argued that if Kobach lobbied Trump on changes to the National Voter Registration Act, commonly called the motor voter law, then the documents may contain material relevant to the case.

Judge James O’Hara in Kansas City, Kan., ordered Kobach to share the documents Monday after privately reviewing them earlier in the month. The judge will allow Kobach to redact portions of the documents unrelated to the case, but he wholly rejected Kobach’s argument that the papers were protected by Trump’s executive privilege. He also questioned whether Kobach had met his duty of candor as an attorney in his efforts to prevent the ACLU from reviewing the papers.

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Trump met with Kobach multiple times before his inauguration, and top-level Trump staffers have pointed to the Kansas official as the source behind the president’s unsubstantiated claim that millions of illegal voters enabled Democrat Hillary Clinton to win the popular vote.

more here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016183538

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2. Good on CNN for following up

Let's see the rest of the popular media get on this, shall we? The President of the United States has impugned the integrity of our elections, the cornerstone of our democracy, and he shouldn't be allowed to just sidle away from his inflammatory remarks without backing them up. How can the American people have confidence in the fair administration of their elections if the President is undermining it without any proof?

This isn't some teaser for a bad reality program. This is the voice of the people, the foundation of our country.

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3. I'm still waiting for his wife's press conference on her immigration status.

[Initech]

4. Because they're the ones who most likely committed said voter fraud.

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5. That investigation was just a way to divert attention