Within just days of taking office, Donald Trump told his most dangerous lie.

It was all the more dangerous because the Republican-controlled 115th Congress let him get away with it.

The newly inaugurated president went before the nation and lied that three or four million illegal votes had been cast in the presidential election. Never happened.

Donald Trump was willing to poison our trust in our electoral process because he was in a snit after losing the popular vote by an embarrassing margin. He went as far as creating a bogus commission to investigate voter fraud state-election authorities officially certified did not exist.

The danger is that Donald Trump’s lie was a practice run and that he’ll use it again in 2020. Unbelievable.

Pat Shiplett

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