Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Brock, Alexander
• Ciambotti, Isabella

Titel

A Fact-Binding Mission: The Oval Office's Reverse Engineering

Ist Teil von

• The Virginia quarterly review, 2019, Vol.95 (4), p.20-23

Ort / Verlag

Charlottesville: University of Virginia

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Trump is alleged to have used the powers of his office for personal benefit, threatening to withhold $400 million in military aid from Ukrainian president Volodmyr Zelensky unless he conducted investigations into two disproved conspiracy theories: Trump used those false claims as a basis for forming a "voter fraud commission" in an attempt to explain his loss of the popular vote. 1 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 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. 11/27/16 - 3:30pm 2 Formation of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (PACEI) 3 Trump disbands PACEI before it is required to release internal documents. Trump's press secretary at the time, Sean Spicer, emphasized the myth during the administration's first press conference. 1 "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration-period- both in person and around the globe. " - Sean Spicer, 01/21/17 2 Photographer with National Park Service (NPS) edits photos of inauguration crowd at Trump's request to make crowd appear larger than it was. 3 Media coverage quickly debunks this given indisputable and widespread photographic and video evidence. 4 "When I looked at the numbers that have come in from all of the various sources, we had the biggest audience in the history of inaugural speeches." -