Republican Legislator Says Trumps’ Voter Fraud Claim ‘Undermines the Constitution’

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:53 pm

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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-ILL) appeared on CNN’s New Day today to explain that Donald Trump’s claims of wholesale voter fraud in the 2016 election “undermines the idea of an election”:

“This basically undermines the idea of an election. This undermines the Constitution. If you really believe there were three to five million illegal votes please share that proof – show us how.”

Watch courtesy of CNN:

Kinzinger actually compared what Trump is doing to Putin’s efforts to undermine our democracy. This is the position Donald Trump has put Republican legislators in, to compare him to Putin.

He went on to say:

“When you just attack it and say, ‘Well, I’ll show you proof eventually,” or you say, ‘Hey look, just trust me on this one,’ you get some people that believe it, because you have confirmation bias on either way. Some people that believe it because it seems right, and some people that don’t.”

We won’t see any proof, of course. As Watergate investigator, Carl Bernstein who knows a few things about conspiracies says of the man who claims he has that proof but won’t show it, “It’s just like the birther claims.”

Watch courtesy of CNN:

Based on this baseless claims, on a complete lack of evidence, Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order either today or Saturday.

That’s right: we now live in a world where overwhelming evidence of anthropogenic global warming is available but Trump declares the evidence does not exist, and a complete lack of evidence of voter fraud leaves Trump insisting voter fraud exists.

Reality hasn’t been turned upside down. It’s been twisted inside-out.

Hrafnkell Haraldsson

Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.