{"id":50040,"date":"2021-07-13T17:24:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T00:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50040"},"modified":"2021-07-13T17:40:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T00:40:16","slug":"trump-mangles-math-in-misquote-from-bidens-voting-rights-speech-to-further-his-big-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50040","title":{"rendered":"Trump Mangles Math in Misquote From Biden’s Voting Rights Speech to Further His Big Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Joe Biden went to Philadelphia Tuesday to deliver an address (video below)<\/em> on the precarious state of democracy amidst the unsettled torrents of post-Trump America. He outlined what Congress and his administration need to do in order to preserve and strengthen what remains of the nation’s voting rights as Republicans seek to suppress election access and opportunity.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

After having lost decisively, Donald Trump has persisted in his attempts to malign America’s electoral system as corrupt and rigged to steal the election from him. It’s a campaign that is closely aligned with the aspirations of foreign enemies like Russia to undermine faith in democracy.<\/p>\n

Contrary to his cheesy MAGA slogan, Trump really hates America and said as much earlier Tuesday in a statement<\/a><\/strong> calling some of the nations greatest and most iconic cities (Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Oakland, and Baltimore) among “the most corrupt cities in the Country.”<\/em> And you can add New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle to his list. You can’t love America and hate the places where most of its citizens live.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Trump and his pathetic legal team have failed utterly to make a convincing case for his election fraud fantasies. But that’s only because they haven’t been able to come up with a single shred of evidence to support their ludicrous claims. That, however, hasn’t stopped Trump from peddling the “Big Lie”<\/em> at every opportunity. And today’s speech by Biden was no exception.<\/p>\n

Trump released a statement through his spokes shill, Liz Harrington, who promptly posted it on Twitter (which Trump is not permitted to do because he was banned for repeatedly propagating lies, and for which Harrington should also be banned<\/a><\/strong>). Trump babbled<\/a><\/strong> that…<\/p>\n

“Biden just said 150 people voted in the 2020 Presidential Election (Scam!). On the assumption that he meant 150 million people, and based on the fact that I got 75 million+++, that would mean that Biden got 75 million votes, which is 6 million votes less than what they said they got. So what is that all about? Are they already conceding 6 million votes?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem with Trump’s statement is that he misquoted Biden. The actual line from the speech said that “All told, more than 150 [million] Americans of every age, every race, every background, exercised their right to vote.”<\/em> Trump left out the words “more than.”<\/em> Consequently, his math is completely off. With the correct quote – and also correcting Trump’s dishonest claim of “75 million+++”<\/em> votes (it was actually only 74.2 million), there are no missing votes and nothing is being conceded.<\/p>\n

Trump should be familiar with the concept of rounding off numbers considering he has done so illegally for decades to either inflate his personal wealth or lower his tax burden. So this is just another typically dishonest ploy by Trump to fudge the numbers in order to gain some personal benefit. And luckily for him, his cult followers are dumb enough to believe it.<\/p>\n

Trump didn’t bother to comment on anything else in Biden’s speech, even though some of it was directed squarely at him. For instance, Biden went straight after Trump’s “Big Lie”<\/em> by noting the unprecedented scrutiny that this election received:<\/p>\n

“With recount after recount after recount, court case after court case, The 2020 election was the most scrutinized election ever in American history. Challenge after challenge brought to local and state election officials, state legislatures, state and federal courts, even to the United States Supreme Court not once, but twice.<\/p>\n

“More than 80 judges, including those appointed by my predecessor, heard the arguments. In every case neither cause nor evidence was found to undermine the national achievement of administering the historic election in the face of such extraordinary challenges. Audits, recounts were conducted in Arizona, Wisconsin. In Georgia it was recounted three times.<\/p>\n

“It’s clear. For those who challenge the results or integrity of the election, no other election has ever been held under such scrutiny or high standards. The “Big Lie” was just that – a big lie.<\/p>\n

“The 2020 election, it’s not hyperbole to suggest, is the most examined in the fullest expression of the will of the people in the history of this nation. This should be celebrated. It’s the example of America at its best. But instead, we continue to see an example of human nature at its worst. Something darker, more sinister.<\/p>\n

“In America if you lose, you accept the results. We follow the Constitution. You try again. You don’t call facts “fake”<\/em> and then try to bring down the American experiment just because you’re unhappy. That’s not statesmanship. That’s not statesmanship, it’s selfishness.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Biden was actually going pretty easy on Trump. Trump’s reckless, incendiary, and brazenly un-American behavior is certainly not statesmanship. But it’s closer to treason than mere selfishness. A better example of patriotism would be for Congress to pass the “For the People Act,”<\/em> and the “John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act,”<\/em> as Biden implored them to do in his speech. And every America should do the same by contacting their senators and letting them how crucial this is to our country’s future.<\/p>\n

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