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Moments ago, White House Secretary Sean Spicer acknowledged that the president believes

three to five million votes were illegally cast in November.

You won the election. What are you complaining about?

There is no widespread evidence of massive voter fraud.

And there is a reason they are providing their evidence.

There is no evidence. It is not true.

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the president who was still obsessing over his crowd sizes.

Donald Trump.

Amjim Elbuy, Slate's chief political correspondent, stepping in for today's show.

Trump is the president, but he never quite reconciled himself to losing the popular vote in

interracic and Taylor Clinton. In fact, before even taking office, he told the world that he would

have won the popular vote, if not for illegal voting. On Monday and a meeting with Congressional

leaders, Trump raised the specter of illegal voting again, asserting to lawmakers that there

were three to five million illegal votes in this election. Coincidentally, that's enough to

erase this popular vote deficit. When pressed about this claim, his press secretary, Sean Spicer,

defended his boss's beliefs, citing unnamed studies from unknown sources. Likewise, in an interview

with ABC News, Trump defended this view, citing a study from the Pew Research Center.

Pew, for its part, says that the president is gravely mistaken. It's study deals with voter

registration, with the fact that people can be registered into different states. The authors say

there is no proof of mass voter fraud. In fact, across the entire world of people who study voting,

no one says there is proof of mass voter fraud. And yet, the president continues to make the claim.

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