{"id":336207,"date":"2017-11-23T04:06:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T03:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/2016-was-not-a-legitimate-election\/"},"modified":"2017-11-23T04:06:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T03:06:39","slug":"2016-was-not-a-legitimate-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/2016-was-not-a-legitimate-election\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 \u2018Was Not a Legitimate Election\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/brazile-sides-clinton-2016-not-legitimate-election\/\"><strong>Washington Free Beacon<\/strong><\/a><br \/>November 22, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former acting Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile voiced her agreement Tuesday with Hillary Clinton\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2017\/11\/trump-win-wasnt-fair-or-democraticbut-it-was-legitimate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">judgment<\/a> that President Donald Trump was not legitimately elected in 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/230tUDzaCfg\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>MSNBC host Chris Matthews said it was \u201cconfounding\u201d that Clinton would call Trump\u2019s election illegitimate, but Brazile said Clinton is right to draw attention to Russian interference. Matthews pushed her to say whether she actually agrees with Clinton, and Brazile continued to express doubts about the election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump cracked the blue wall,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was able to win votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, but, yes, I do believe Secretary Clinton is making a very important point. The role of social media, this coordination between WikiLeaks and possibly the Trump campaign\u2014we need to get to the bottom of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matthews pressed her to say whether she agreed with Clinton, and Brazile answered in the affirmative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy personal view is that it was not a legitimate election,\u201d Brazile said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/brazile-sides-clinton-2016-not-legitimate-election\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Wednesday, November 22, 2017  at  10:03 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/brazile-sides-with-hillary-clinton-2016-was-not-a-legitimate-election.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/brazile-sides-with-hillary-clinton-2016-was-not-a-legitimate-election.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Free BeaconNovember 22, 2017 Former acting Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile voiced her agreement Tuesday with Hillary Clinton\u2019s judgment that President Donald Trump was not legitimately elected in 2016. MSNBC host Chris Matthews said it was \u201cconfounding\u201d that Clinton would call Trump\u2019s election illegitimate, but Brazile said Clinton is right to draw attention [&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-336207","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\/336207","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=336207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}