Yesterday the White House asserted, with abso-tootly zero evidence and in public, that the current administration believes widespread voting fraud took place in the 2016 presidential election, voting fraud so massive and severe that it bent the popular vote in Hillary Clinton's favor even while delivering the Electoral College, aka the important part, to Donald Trump.
One of the things that's super-duper odd about this—far be it from me to call professional paid sack of crap Sean Spicer a liar, mind you, but it sure is super-duper odd—is that in the days after the election Donald Trump's team went to great lengths to prevent recounts of the presidential vote from happening. Because, they said, there was absolutely no fraud anywhere to be found. From the court documents presented in Michigan, for example:
All available evidence suggests that the 2016 general election was not tainted by fraud or mistake. Governor Snyder has said so. [...] So too has the White House. [...] Even the chief-council to second-place finisher Hillary Clinton concedes there is no evidence of any tampering that would warrant a recount.
They were quite put out about it, in fact. When a third-party candidate suggested that perhaps the vote that the White House is now themselves contesting was not fully on the up-and-up, all the Trump lawyers turned beet red with indignation that anyone anywhere would do such a dishonorable thing.
Regrettably, Michigan is not the only victim of Stein's electoral farce. Rather, it is the nation as a whole. By "contesting" the clear choice of millions of voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, Stein aims to sow doubts regarding the legitimacy of the presidential election [...]
And what kind of inhuman monster from the depths of hell would do that?
Now the White House's official, public position is precisely the opposite of what it was back then. Golly gee, somebody sure isn't on the same page as someotherbody here.
What could this mean? Again, none of us are here to argue that Sean Spicer, the man tasked with being der Pumpkinfuhrer's official state spokesman, is a lying sack of bull excrement squeezed into a suit. Nobody would suggest that he is an amoral and conscience-free man, a man willing to sacrifice truth to gain a little power or sacrifice the integrity of his own nation's government to get just a wee little bit more. It would be deeply controversial to suggest that he was nothing but a rank propagandist, a liar for hire, a coward who cashed in his own integrity for the opportunity to be a mentally unfit and unstable man's enabler in chief.
But it sure is an odd contradiction. All the Sunday shows and all the president's spokespeople combined won’t be able to adequately explain this conundrum. We know it’s not because the current executive branch of the United States government is openly and blatantly lying to the American people, however, so it must be something else.
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