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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:04 PM Aug 2019

Trump: "Google manipulated 2.6 to 16 million votes! My victory was even bigger than thought!"

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election! This was put out by a Clinton supporter, not a Trump Supporter! Google should be sued. My victory was even bigger than thought!
@JudicialWatch

11:52 AM · Aug 19, 2019·Twitter for iPhone


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Trump: "Google manipulated 2.6 to 16 million votes! My victory was even bigger than thought!" (Original Post) Miles Archer Aug 2019 OP
Wha...? EarlG Aug 2019 #1
Laying the groundwork for contesting his 2020 loss Miles Archer Aug 2019 #4
Yep, and he'll be doing it more and more dalton99a Aug 2019 #10
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2019 #23
Nope, this is the putin rump bannon groundwork for when he loses, so 45 million Eliot Rosewater Aug 2019 #27
+1 sandensea Aug 2019 #33
LIAR LIAR .... I WISH you were on fire. What they did to Warlocks trueblue2007 Aug 2019 #63
That, and he's trying to make OUR brains melt. GoCubsGo Aug 2019 #59
WTF? He has lost his god damned mind! Vinnie From Indy Aug 2019 #2
BEST REPLY: Miles Archer Aug 2019 #3
+1 dalton99a Aug 2019 #7
that's a fantastic graphic NewJeffCT Aug 2019 #28
Love this. n/t ms liberty Aug 2019 #47
That.Is.BRILLIANT! 50 Shades Of Blue Aug 2019 #61
As a country we are in deathly seriousness trouble. Guilded Lilly Aug 2019 #5
Since when is Google connected to voting machines? Chemisse Aug 2019 #6
Now that's just stupid (no surprise there). If Google really could have manipulated votes The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2019 #8
Not an expert at this DonaldsRump Aug 2019 #9
He doesn't understand CommonSenseMom Aug 2019 #11
Crackpot says what? GusBob Aug 2019 #12
Quick, someone turn to fox to see what he's trying to talk about. NightWatcher Aug 2019 #13
He tagged Judicial Watch, but... Miles Archer Aug 2019 #14
Judicial Watch.....So the source is.... Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2019 #20
Reminds me of the Mystery Science Theater episode where Mike, Crow, and Tom Servo dressed as Fabio Miles Archer Aug 2019 #22
yeah sure... Takket Aug 2019 #15
Note the 2.6 million number, isn't that about how many more votes Hillary got than Meadowoak Aug 2019 #16
I did too. He wrote those off as illegals voting, right. But, he knows it's not true Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2019 #39
and 16 million votes would have given him a landslide LastLiberal in PalmSprings Aug 2019 #62
And this has fuck all to do with...? smirkymonkey Aug 2019 #17
Polls, including those from Fox, predicting a loss in 2020 to "any Democrat." Miles Archer Aug 2019 #19
Another reason Midnightwalk Aug 2019 #18
He wants to censor the Internet, he wants Voter ID, he wants totalitarian control Miles Archer Aug 2019 #21
No, just no. Do not beiieve a word from his mouth. He lost by 3m despite what this bogus claim says. brush Aug 2019 #35
I believe nothing he says Midnightwalk Aug 2019 #45
So when I was Googling cat videos I was actually voting??? NT Bleacher Creature Aug 2019 #24
LOL underpants Aug 2019 #32
DUzy !!! Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2019 #37
LOL Scurrilous Aug 2019 #50
How exactly did they do that? Renew Deal Aug 2019 #25
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2019 #26
Trump is entertaining Turbineguy Aug 2019 #29
Time to hammer home his mental decline because this is lunacy lettucebe Aug 2019 #30
Google should buy Greenland just to really piss him off. BSdetect Aug 2019 #31
Brilliant! The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2019 #40
Lol jberryhill Aug 2019 #46
I absolutely LOVE that the popular vote loss bothers him so much... Moostache Aug 2019 #34
My dear Miles, this belongs in the "lounge" comedy forum. :) Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2019 #36
I wish. I almost hated posting it but couldn't resist. Miles Archer Aug 2019 #38
Just now on CNN calling false, ridiculous. You are Laura PourMeADrink Aug 2019 #66
He's using Judicial Watch as his source? gratuitous Aug 2019 #41
Is that a little too looney Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2019 #43
No words for this Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2019 #42
Nobody seems to know WHAT he's referencing! Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2019 #44
Probably the inside of his own colon. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2019 #48
Trump got this from Robert Epstein: Ilsa Aug 2019 #49
Thank you for finding that reference. Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2019 #52
I just did a little ... googling. LOL Ilsa Aug 2019 #53
Uh oh! greatauntoftriplets Aug 2019 #51
"Giraffes cause smog! Hillary eats babies! LSD is a vitamin!" struggle4progress Aug 2019 #54
Take your vitamins! Va Lefty Aug 2019 #56
Does he know.... oh never mind C_U_L8R Aug 2019 #55
Time for the rubber room. captain queeg Aug 2019 #57
Thats funny...I don't remember google being in charge of any election or vote counting sdfernando Aug 2019 #58
Just one thought nykym Aug 2019 #60
From Hillary Clinton Gothmog Aug 2019 #64
Hillary's response is brilliant! Vinca Aug 2019 #65
Richard Stengel LiberalFighter Aug 2019 #67

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
4. Laying the groundwork for contesting his 2020 loss
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:08 PM
Aug 2019

I somewhat predicted it in a thread I posted earlier today, and...ladies and gentlemen...there is is.

Response to EarlG (Reply #1)

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
27. Nope, this is the putin rump bannon groundwork for when he loses, so 45 million
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:37 PM
Aug 2019

of his disgusting followers will take matters into their own hands.

sandensea

(21,639 posts)
33. +1
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:42 PM
Aug 2019

I suppose we can take it as a good sign of sorts, as it means they've realized they can't hack and flip enough votes to overcome the Trump slump - both approval and economy-wise.

GoCubsGo

(32,086 posts)
59. That, and he's trying to make OUR brains melt.
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 01:52 PM
Aug 2019

That tweet is his normal, bizarro ball of gaslighting, narrative changing, preemptive ass-covering, and the usual self-aggrandizing pack of lies he's always telling. The only ones who aren't sick of this shit are his cult followers. He's just trying to make the rest of us terminally ill by bombarding us with this kind of lunacy.

Chemisse

(30,813 posts)
6. Since when is Google connected to voting machines?
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:08 PM
Aug 2019

Trump doesn't even know how to make up a logical story.

Maybe he dreamed it last night.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,733 posts)
8. Now that's just stupid (no surprise there). If Google really could have manipulated votes
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:09 PM
Aug 2019

for Hillary (which they couldn't), they'd have manipulated them in states where she needed an electoral win instead of wasting them on California. But her popular vote win has been eating at him all this time so he had to come up with something to relieve that pain in the ego.

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
9. Not an expert at this
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:10 PM
Aug 2019

But methinks Google's defamation lawyers will be busy working overtime for the foreseeable future...

What is he talking about???

CommonSenseMom

(43 posts)
11. He doesn't understand
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:10 PM
Aug 2019

anything about Google or the other tech companies. Clearly, has no idea. Manipulated? By physically changing votes in a precinct's tabulations or a state's final numbers on their computers? Or is he/are they saying Google influenced that many people to vote another way? Seriously scratching my head here . . .

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
13. Quick, someone turn to fox to see what he's trying to talk about.
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:12 PM
Aug 2019

25th Amendment, anyone?

Nope?


Oh well then.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
14. He tagged Judicial Watch, but...
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:14 PM
Aug 2019

...sometimes he does that when they are the source, other times when he just wants to high-five them with his latest manufactured scenarios. So it was them, or Fox. I'm sure it will come out later.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
22. Reminds me of the Mystery Science Theater episode where Mike, Crow, and Tom Servo dressed as Fabio
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:28 PM
Aug 2019

They had fake plastic torsos and curly wigs and the premise was that "anyone could become Fabio" with their invention, right down to his "taut, muffin-y chest."

Takket

(21,577 posts)
15. yeah sure...
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:15 PM
Aug 2019

google went to all the trouble to manipulate 16 million votes but accepted a Hillary loss because I guess 16,077,000 (+77k to win MI/PA/WI) was just pushing it a little too far LOL

So... lest ye be fooled.... this isn't about 2016. it is about 2020. these are "foot in the door" tweets to lay the groundwork for more voter suppression and/or contesting the election.

Meadowoak

(5,551 posts)
16. Note the 2.6 million number, isn't that about how many more votes Hillary got than
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:16 PM
Aug 2019

Trump, sounds like it's driving him crazy that he got less votes. He will do anything to change the perception of him being the loser!

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
39. I did too. He wrote those off as illegals voting, right. But, he knows it's not true
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:55 PM
Aug 2019

of course. But he's lived his whole life creating a false PR image. So the 2.6, in his mind "covered."

not sure if still on, but Netflix had a great four part documentary on trump - starting on his first foray into Manhattan real estate. As time went on they said he was absolutely the best self-promoter ever known. In old clips, they showed how much people idolized him (false image), including the press.

To me, though, as pResident, it ALL goes back to him getting away with what he says. He accomplishes this by not having any proper press conferences where he is held accountable. Why Dem candidates don't mention this all the time is a mystery. It shows he is autocratic and above the law, norms, and traditions.

62. and 16 million votes would have given him a landslide
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 02:14 PM
Aug 2019

rather than just match Hillary's result.

As Hillary put it, "I'm living rent-free in Donald's head."

Why did this suddenly pop into his head? And buying Greenland, too? Has Fat Donnie truly gone over the edge?

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
19. Polls, including those from Fox, predicting a loss in 2020 to "any Democrat."
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:22 PM
Aug 2019
‘I’m the one who calls the shots’: Trump rails against Fox News for giving him ‘his worst polls’



https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/im-the-one-who-calls-the-shots-trump-rails-against-fox-news-for-giving-him-his-worst-polls/

President Donald Trump explained why Fox News has drawn his ire and that they need to realize he’s the one in control of them.

In a conversation on the tarmac in Morristown, New Jersey on his way back to Washington, Trump said that Fox News has not been good to him lately.

“Fox is a lot different than it used to be, I can tell you that,” Trump said.

Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
18. Another reason
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:19 PM
Aug 2019

I think the main reasons are deflection for something coming out and fueling Support for censoring the internet.

But maybe there is some truth. People use google to check his statements and others criticisms of him and find out what a racist bumbling creepy lying pos he is. That might have swung a number of votes.

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
21. He wants to censor the Internet, he wants Voter ID, he wants totalitarian control
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:24 PM
Aug 2019

He sees that 2020 isn't a sure thing by conventional means, so he's working on "Plan B."

There's no way Private Citizen Trump wants to face the SDNY in January 2021.

brush

(53,787 posts)
35. No, just no. Do not beiieve a word from his mouth. He lost by 3m despite what this bogus claim says.
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:44 PM
Aug 2019

Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
45. I believe nothing he says
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 01:04 PM
Aug 2019

Just pointing out the irony that fact checking using google might further lower his numbers. Hell of a thing to complain about.

Response to Miles Archer (Original post)

lettucebe

(2,336 posts)
30. Time to hammer home his mental decline because this is lunacy
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:39 PM
Aug 2019

He is getting desperate, and really this shows his mental state clearly.

He's unfit, mentally unstable, calling out even Fox as being somehow biased against him. Sorry fella. Straight jacket is on order

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
34. I absolutely LOVE that the popular vote loss bothers him so much...
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 12:42 PM
Aug 2019

It clearly eats at his soul and he STILL cannot accept the fact that even though his handlers cheated and installed him in office, they could not manage to do so with a majority of the votes cast.

HE LOST...on sheer numbers of voters, more people did NOT want him as POTUS than those who did or had their votes changed to get him installed.

Suffer Donnie 2 Scoops. You LOST. You are a LOSER. He who has fewer votes in the history books and FOREVER, will be known as the LOSER. And in 2020, you're gonna get to hear your dumb ass catch phrase LOUD AND CLEAR....

YOU ARE FUCKING FIRED LOSER!!!

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)
44. Nobody seems to know WHAT he's referencing!
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 01:02 PM
Aug 2019

Judicial Watch apparently never posted that story.

I used Google to search for it, so maybe they're just keeping me away from the truth?


Trump's an unstable idiot!

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
49. Trump got this from Robert Epstein:
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 01:30 PM
Aug 2019
Trump appears to be referring to the work of Robert Epstein, a researcher with a group based in Vista, Calif., called the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology. Epstein testified in a Senate hearing in June about what he calls the “Search Engine Manipulation Effect” and claimed that his research shows Google’s search results pushed at least 2.6 milllion people to vote for Clinton in 2016.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/457953-trump-alleges-google-manipulated-voters-against-him

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)
52. Thank you for finding that reference.
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 01:36 PM
Aug 2019

I don't believe the conclusions of that study, but at least you made a direct reference to it unlike the idiot-in-chief.

sdfernando

(4,935 posts)
58. Thats funny...I don't remember google being in charge of any election or vote counting
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 01:51 PM
Aug 2019

did I miss something?

I know, I know....just orange pustule spouting shit again!

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