{"id":291500,"date":"2017-01-24T13:05:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T12:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-blames-fraud-by-illegals-for-popular-vote-loss\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T13:05:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T12:05:25","slug":"trump-blames-fraud-by-illegals-for-popular-vote-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-blames-fraud-by-illegals-for-popular-vote-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump blames fraud by &#039;illegals&#039; for popular vote loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has claimed that he would have won the popular vote if it were not for the millions of \u201cillegal\u201d immigrants who voted for his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump made the claim in a private meeting with Democratic and Republican leaders at the White House on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said 3-5 million &#8216;illegals&#8217; voted so that&#8217;s why he lost popular vote,\u201d said a Democratic aide, who was present at the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s exactly what he said,\u201d a second source familiar with the exchange confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican billionaire, who was inaugurated on Friday, scored about 3 million votes less than Clinton in their November 8 face-off. However, he was able to seal the victory by winning the Electoral College vote, 304-227.<\/p>\n<p>House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy alluded to the issue, saying that Trump discussed \u201cthe different Electoral College, popular vote\u201d with the lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had made similar claims in the past, writing in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/01\/24\/507545\/US-Trump-Clinton-popular-vote-fraud\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has claimed that he would have won the popular vote if it were not for the millions of \u201cillegal\u201d immigrants who voted for his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. Trump made the claim in a private meeting with Democratic and Republican leaders at the White House on Monday night. \u201cHe said 3-5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-291500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}