‘It’s not even remotely true’: Tapper rails into Trump’s ‘baseless’ voter fraud conspiracy theory
In a biting segment Tuesday, CNN’s Jake Tapper railed into President Donald Trump’s claim that millions voted illegally in the 2016 election.
“The emperor has no facts,” Tapper began on the Lead, tearing into Trump’s “baseless conspiracy theory” that voter fraud handed the 2016 popular vote to rival Hillary Clinton.
“President Trump is claiming, and the White House is reaffirming, the fiction that millions of illegal votes were cast in the 2016 election,” Tapper said. “It is, empirically, a stunning allegation, one which the White House is providing no evidence.”
“And there’s a reason they’re providing no evidence,” he continued. “There is no evidence, it’s not true.”
Referring to Tuesday’s White House press conference, Tapper said it’s “interesting” that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer refuses to say whether he shares Trump’s belief.