White House rebuts Trump vote fraud claim分析和总结分析和总结.docx

Mr Trumps claims are unfounded, says White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest The White House says there is no evidence to support Donald Trumps claim of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 US presidential election. Press Secretary Josh Earnest dismissed the president-elects unsubstantiated allegations that millions of people had cast illegal votes. Mr Trump also alleged voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California, states which Hillary Clinton won. Mr Earnest deferred to Mr Trumps team for further comment. What I can say, as an objective fact, is that there has been no evidence produced to substantiate a claim like that, he told reporters at a White House briefing. Mr Trump, who won the all-important electoral college count, aired his grievances with the election result in a tweet on Sunday. In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally, he wrote. For Trump, controversy is like water to a fish Analysis: Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America reporter Its a classic Donald Trump move. Take an accusation, and turn it on an accuser. His opponents want a recount in states he won? Then hell allege massive voter fraud in states carried by Hillary Clinton. There is, of course, no evidence of the millions of illegal votes that Mr Trump says were cast for Democrats. If there were, it would merit a full investigation and not a series of Sunday-morning tweets from the president-elect. The veracity of these accusations seems of little import to Mr Trump. What matters is that by going on the offensive, he turns a story about the legitimacy of his narrow wins in key states into a muddled mess. As he has done in the past, he raises the volume in hopes of drowning out a negative story. The irony is that, in this case, it seems a pointless undertaking. The Green Party-funded recounts will almost certainly fail to reveal electoral malfeasance. Mr Trump could have let them proceed wi