“He believes what he believes”
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer defended Donald Trump’s claim that “3 to 5 million people” voted illegally in the 2016 election. However, when asked why Trump hasn’t provided any evidence of his claim, this is how Spicer responded:
“The president does believe that,” Spicer told one reporter.
It’s a “longstanding belief,” he told another.
“He’s believed this for a long time,” he said to a third.
“He believes what he believes based on the information he’s provided,” Spicer told the fourth reporter to raise the issue Tuesday.
Let’s think about that for a minute, the President of the United States believes a bizarre conspiracy theory with no evidence, but he still believes it… you know because “he’s believed this for a long time.”
Later on a reporter said to Spicer that if Trump’s false claims were true that it would be “the biggest scandal in American electoral history” and then asked what the administration was planning to do about it. Spicers response was, “As I noted several times, he’s believed this for a long time now, and I think he won fairly overwhelmingly.”
When Spicer was further pushed on the issue of whether Trump would investigate, “Maybe we will” investigate it, he said. “It was a comment he made on a long-standing belief.”
This is getting more frightening by the day.
