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Was the 2016 election legitimate?
LA Times ^

Posted on 07/30/2018 9:03:43 AM PDT by frogjerk

We need to talk about a forbidden subject: the legitimacy of the current president.

There’s been a code of silence around President Donald Trump’s shady victory in 2016. It’s one of those tiptoe-around-it things that the American family just doesn’t talk about. And with good reason. Whatever your politics, it’s perilous to question the soundness of an American election.

Raising the question of Trump’s legitimacy risks detonating a full-blown crisis of faith — kindling distrust not just in Trump, but also in the system that installed him.

But fear of facing the legitimacy question has not stopped Americans from harboring profound doubts, if only “deep down in places you don't talk about at parties,” in Aaron Sorkin’s phrasing from “A Few Good Men.”

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; delusional; fakenews; hillarylost; tds
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1 posted on 07/30/2018 9:03:43 AM PDT by frogjerk
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To: frogjerk

I think this is an excellent question that all Democrat candidates should raise during the upcoming campaign.


2 posted on 07/30/2018 9:04:54 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: frogjerk

Funny, if Trump had lost and then questioned the legitimacy of Hillary’s win, this same pinhead would be writing columns condemning Trump. So it is all about condemning and undermining Trump, not about any overlying principals.


3 posted on 07/30/2018 9:05:57 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: frogjerk

It’s only legitimate when THEY win.


4 posted on 07/30/2018 9:06:06 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: frogjerk

Yes, the election was not valid. Hillary should never have been allowed to run.


5 posted on 07/30/2018 9:06:29 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: frogjerk

The 2008 and 2012 elections were frauds.

The largest fraud ever perpetrated in human history.

Barack Obama is NOT a natural born citizen.

BOTH parties conspired to violate the Constitution.


6 posted on 07/30/2018 9:06:32 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: frogjerk

Just when you thought the MSM could not go any further through the Looking Glass...


7 posted on 07/30/2018 9:06:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: frogjerk

Since Hillary Clinton and her minions stole the Democrat primary a case can be made that her candidacy was illigetimate. The fact she goes on and on bitchin and moaning about not winning seems to make the point.

Hillary is an illegitimate loser


8 posted on 07/30/2018 9:06:44 AM PDT by bert
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There’s been a code of silence around President Donald Trump’s shady victory in 2016.

Say what? These people have completely lost their minds.
9 posted on 07/30/2018 9:07:08 AM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: frogjerk
BARF ALERT!!!
10 posted on 07/30/2018 9:07:54 AM PDT by Boomer (Leftism is the Mental/Moral Equivalent of End Stage Cancer)
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To: frogjerk

I guess the liberal author doesn’t count the illegal aliens and dead people voting Democrap as a problem.


11 posted on 07/30/2018 9:07:57 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: frogjerk

Well, it’s the LA times.

Trump lost California.

They don’t seem to grasp that individual states don’t elect presidents. States do.


12 posted on 07/30/2018 9:08:16 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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Hillary is an illegitimate loser.

No, she is legitimately a loser.

13 posted on 07/30/2018 9:08:27 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: frogjerk

They’re echoing their “father”: “Hath God said...?”


14 posted on 07/30/2018 9:08:29 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: frogjerk

It’s the LA Slimes. They are inferior to the NT Slimes. But - Bless their heart - they do try and throw up some slime every bit as good as New York. Whenever they can.


15 posted on 07/30/2018 9:08:40 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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Russia! Russia! Russia!

16 posted on 07/30/2018 9:09:14 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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YES, this was an ILLEGITIMATE election in Los Angelos, County, if that is what he means. Way too many illegal aliens, and dead people, or foreign nationals voting in this election. Ilegitimate, yes.


17 posted on 07/30/2018 9:09:15 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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This is what they say constantly on twitter. That he is not legitimate.

I don't know how you can be so calm about it. I want to smack them one.

They are frightening and insane.

18 posted on 07/30/2018 9:09:59 AM PDT by MarMema (John James for US Senate. Dump Debbie!! Let's Fly Michigan.)
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To: bert

They demanded Trump declare it legitimate beforehand.


19 posted on 07/30/2018 9:10:23 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: frogjerk
There’s been a code of silence around President Donald Trump’s shady victory in 2016.

Only for those who lived in a sensory deprivation tank since then.

20 posted on 07/30/2018 9:10:36 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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