Trump and His Fellow Grifters Lie About "Voter Fraud": A Closer Look

-President Trump is becoming more lawless amid a Justice Department power grab and Florida recount. To learn more about this, it's time for "A Closer Look." Trump has always seen the law not as a limitation on his power but as a tool to protect and enrich himself. Today, for example, he attacked Democrats for saying they will investigate him now that they control the House, tweeting: "The prospect of presidential harassment by Democrats is causing major headaches for the stock market!" And last week he said that if House Democrats use his power to investigate him, he will simply turn around and investigate them. -Are they offering Democrats a “my way or my way” scenario? -No. -Are you saying that... -Negotiation.

You are welcome. ...if they start investigating you, you can play that game and investigate them. -Better than them. -It can be compartmentalized... -And I think I know more... And I think I know more than they know. -No. No, you don't. Trump is like a Gotham City gangster who thinks he can outsmart Batman and ends up hanging from a gargoyle. "Bad news Batman, I have a utility belt too. Oh, son of a bitch! Oh. Oh, I'm backwards again. Oh, that backfired." Con artists always think they can outsmart everyone else, and that's what Trump is: a con artist who surrounds himself with other con artists.

Right now, as we speak, Trump is being sued in Federal Court for de

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ing investors. He just appointed an acting Attorney General who advised a firm accused of de

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ing clients. And his Senate candidate in Florida, the state's governor, was involved in one of the biggest Medicare frauds in American history. -President Trump, three of his adult children and his company are now facing a new lawsuit for allegedly defrauding consumers in a "systematic fraud and mob pattern." -Matt Whitaker, the now acting Attorney General after the firing of Jeff Sessions, is now linked to a so-called scam company. -Rick Scott made his fortune in healthcare administration.

He served as general director of the Colombia Hospital Corporation. Scott resigned in 1997 amid a fraud scandal spanning Medicare, Medicaid and other federal programs. -Man, if these guys weren't in politics, they'd be selling fake Rolexes on the sidewalk in Times Square. "Of course it's a real Rolex. The extra X is for extreme." Trump's entire career has been based on scamming people. In fact, even in the final weeks of the presidential campaign, Trump was personally involved in a scheme to violate campaign finance law by paying money to conceal his alleged affairs, as we learned on Friday. -"The Wall Street Journal" reports that federal prosecutors have evidence that Donald Trump played a central role in paying women during the 2016 campaign who claimed to have had affairs with him. -"The Wall Street Journal" reports that during the 2016 campaign Donald Trump coordinated closely with American Media Inc.

Chairman David Pecker to silence two women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump. -You know, there are a lot of things that are hard to believe about the Trump era, but one thing I will never forget is the fact that the president asked a friend to help him cover up an affair with a Playboy model and the last name of that friend. It was literally Pecker. He's like the worst script in a freshman creative writing class. "I need a name for the guy who covers up the sexual stuff. Oh, I know. I'll call him Rex Penis." So prosecutors now have evidence that Trump personally violated election law during a presidential campaign, which makes it quite convenient that he installed an acting Attorney General, Matt Whitaker, who is very loyal to Trump and, just as Like Trump, Whitaker also has a history of fraud. . -Whitaker later joined the advisory board and received his first payment from it in October 2014 for a company that has since closed and been fined $26 million by federal authorities. -World Patent Marketing presented itself as a company that helped investors obtain patents, and Whitaker got to work. -It is a unique design that will help... -An invention of a hot tub is shown in this company publication. -That's right, the new Attorney General of the United States was involved in a hot tub sales scam.

Not only does this administration continue to add scammers, but the scams continue to get worse. Our next Secretary of State will be a guy who forges signatures based on baseballs. How did Trump pick this guy? Well, Whitaker basically auditioned for the role by appearing on television and criticizing the Russia investigation. In fact, at one point Whitaker, who is now overseeing the Russia investigation, said that the infamous meeting Donald Trump Jr. had with the Russians at Trump Tower in 2016 was totally fine. -If you have someone you trust telling you that you need to meet with this person because he has information about your opponent, you would accept that meeting.

You certainly want to have any advantage and any legal advantage that you can, and one of those main advantages is knowing who your opponent is. You know, I mean, all kinds of things that could be happening. And Hillary Clinton, there was a lot of smoke around her. -Was there smoke around her? Trump has so much smoke around him that it

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s like he's been on Willie Nelson's tour bus. Then, on Friday, reporters asked Trump if he picked Whitaker because he saw him on TV attacking the Russia investigation, and Trump made it sound like he'd never met the guy. -What do you think of all this criticism of Matt Whitaker and the calls to recuse himself considering what he said-- -Well, Matt Whitaker, I don't know Matt Whitaker. -There you go.

Trump says there is no conflict of interest because he does not know Matt Whitaker. And if Trump says something, then you know he also said the exact opposite. -In "The Washington Post" this morning, he says that you spoke with the Attorney General's chief of staff about replacing the Attorney General. Apparently, according to the post, you spoke with Matthew Whitaker. Anything about that story? -Well, I never talk about it, but I can tell you that Matt Whitaker is a great guy. I mean, I know Matt Whitaker. -Of course he knows him. If anyone

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s like he should be friends with Trump, it's poor Telly Savalas.

And, on top of everything else, Whitaker's appointment itself could be illegal. Whitaker was not next in line for the Justice Department and has never been confirmed by the Senate. Last week, two prominent attorneys wrote an op-ed arguing that Whitaker's appointment was unconstitutional. And one of those lawyers has a personal connection to the White House. -Kellyanne Conway's own husband, George Conway, a self-described conservative, co-authored an op-ed in "The New York Times," calling Whitaker's appointment as acting attorney general unconstitutional, illegal and invalid. -That's right, one of the authors of the opinion article was George Conway, the husband of White House advisor Kellyanne Conway.

And this isn't even the first time he's criticized Trump in public. What is that marriage like? "Honey, can you pass me the chicken?" "There is no chicken." "I'm looking right at the chicken." "That's not chicken, that's an alternative meatloaf." Trump was asked... Trump was asked on Friday about George Conway's criticism, and he decided to attack the husband of one of his closest advisers. -Was Kellyanne's husband wrong? -WHO? -Kellyanne's husband wrote the... -Do you mean... do you mean... do you mean, Mr. Kellyanne Conway? Why don't you ask Kellyanne that question, okay? She might...she might know him better than I do.

I don't really know the guy. -Okay, so you definitely know the guy. But Trump, of course, is no marriage expert. In fact, after that talk with reporters, Trump started walking away to get into his helicopter and forgot that he had left his wife alone off camera. -I'll see you in Europe. -"No. No, you. No, that's the polite way to do it. You make a big flexible bow. In ancient times that was considered chivalrous. Goodbye everyone. Goodbye." I mean, at least... at least he came back for her. Melania, one. Umbrella, zero. It is obvious that Trump wants Whitaker to control the Russia investigation and special counsel Robert Mueller.

But when asked about Mueller on Friday, Trump claimed he wasn't even thinking about that. - -I haven't ruled out anything. I haven't even thought about it. I'm thinking about the world. -The world? Globalist. You should think about the United States first. Of course there is, there's something else on Trump's mind, and that's the recount in Florida, where Republican gubernatorial and Senate candidates Ron DeSantis and Rick Scott lead by a narrow margin. After Election Day, officials were still counting mail-in votes and provisional votes, which is completely normal and happens in every election. But Trump and Scott have been lying and spreading baseless conspiracy theories about non-existent

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fraud. -All Floridians should be concerned that there may be rampant fraud in Palm Beach and Broward County. -Any evidence of electoral fraud? -Wait.

Well, take a look at the past. Take a look at the past. And suddenly they find votes? Do you mean that after the elections they find votes? -Yes, that's when you find the votes, after people have cast them. "I planted seeds in my garden, and two weeks later I find flowers? A fraud?" And today Trump tweeted that the vote counting should simply stop, because his candidates are ahead. -"The Florida election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis given that a large number of new ballots appeared out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or falsified.

An honest vote count is no longer possible: the ballots are massively infected. It must go with election night!" -Hey man, you can't just stop counting the votes, because you're ahead. Trump is like a guy who starts a horse game, scores a basket, and says, "Actually, we were playing H-, so I win. I'm the winner, you're..." Trump was then asked if there was any evidence that there was fraud in Florida. And since there is no evidence, he had no answer. -Do you notice that the votes never go the other way? They hire lawyers and the votes never seem to favor Republicans. -Do you have evidence of fraud? -Although I listen- Well, I don't know, you tell me. -Alright.

We tell you. No. You have no evidence of fraud in Florida. In fact, I'd be surprised if you even knew what state Florida is. If you asked him to describe him, he'd probably say he's the one shaped like... -Pecker. -So, Trump has no evidence of electoral fraud, but don't worry, he is putting his best people on it. -"As soon as the Democrats sent their best election theft lawyer, Marc Elias, to Broward County, they miraculously started finding Democratic votes. Don't worry, Florida. I'm sending much better lawyers to expose the FRAUD! " -Oh, are you going to send your lawyers to look at tickets like this guy?

I'm not sure it's your best option. I mean, look. It looks like he just got kicked in the... -Pecker. "So... we have to... we have to tell our Pecker jokes now while we can." The guys who lie about nonexistent

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fraud are the ones who committed actual fraud. A crook president put a crook in charge of the Justice Department and is trying to get another crook elected to the Senate. But like the con man that he is, Trump always abandons the people who serve him, whether it's the Attorney General, his personal fixer, or even someone as close to him as his… -Pecker.

This has been "A Closer Look."