In his press conference today Trump said the following.
“We got 306 because people came out and voted like they’ve never seen before so that’s the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan. In other words, the media’s trying to attack our administration because they know we are following through on pledges that we made and they’re not happy about it for whatever reason.”
But that is a lie, according to The National Archives and Records Administration Trump only got 304 check it out. https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/2016/election-results.html
Also, Trump, you guessed wrong, you only did better than GW Bush.
- 2016 Donald Trump 306 vs Hillary Clinton 227
- 2012 Barack Obama 332 vs Mitt Romney 206
- 2008 Barack Obama 365 vs John McCain 173
- 2004 George W Bush 286 vs John Kerry 251
- 2000 George W Bush 271 vs Al Gore 266
- 1996 Bill Clinton 379 vs Bob Dole 159
- 1992 Bill Clinton 370 vs George Bush 168
- 1988 George Bush 426 vs Michael Dukakis 111
I know, I know, “alternative facts” are the mainstay of this administration, but damn it I want the president to be accurate when he gives facts because credibility makes a difference. If we cannot take the president at his word on how many electoral votes he received, how can we believe anything he says?
I won’t even go into the mindboggling WTFery that tries to make the jump from saying you have an “illegal leak” of classified information to being “fake news.” If the information is real and “classified” then any stories written detailing that leaked information, must by their very nature be true. In the case of leaking classified information that covers up criminal activity, such as in a case involving a violation of the Logan Act would actually fall into the Whistleblower category. Bottom line, if the “leaked information” was, in fact, a lie then we can call it fake news and put out the truth.