For the last few weeks, Donald Trump has whined that if Hillary Clinton is elected president, it will be because of massive voter fraud. But at a rally this weekend outside Cleveland, Trump changed his tune. It seems that he doesn’t mind people voting twice–provided they’re voting for him.
Trump dropped by the I-X Center in Brook Park, just a day after Hillary Clinton held a rally at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. WKSU in Kent got a clip.
Trump went into his current schtick about the election being rigged, going as far as to suggest Hillary was being helped by tombstone voting, as well as large numbers of people registered to vote in more than one state. To his mind, it was evidence that “it’s a rigged system and a rigged election.”
But then he mused that it might help him get elected–and if that happened, he wouldn’t mind.
“There are 1.8 million dead people that are registered right now to vote. And folks: some of them vote. I wonder why? I wonder how that happens. Maybe they’ll vote for Trump, I don’t know. Maybe I shouldn’t be saying anything.”
But this moment of sanity didn’t last. He then mused that if people voted illegally for him, “it’s okay for them to do it!”
Normally, we could laugh at this. But we have to remember that Trump has already stated that he’ll only accept the election results if he wins. We also have to remember that there’s a substantial element of the GOP that doesn’t consider any Democratic president to be legitimate–whether he or she is white, black, or polka-dotted.
As if we needed any doubt that Trump had joined that crowd, he slid right back into his spiel that Hillary will only be elected if the election is rigged. He wrung his hands at a large number of noncitizens who are on the rolls, and also claimed the media was a big reason that “the system is rigged.”
So if Hillary is elected, it’s because the election is rigged. But if Trump wins with the help of voter fraud, it’s the first step toward making America great again. Yeah, OK.
(featured image courtesy DonkeyHotey, available under a Creative Commons-BY license)
