Racism Super Stupid

Trump Believes in Voter Fraud Because a German Golfer Saw Some Brown People

Written by SK Ashby

You can't make this shit up.

During a meeting at the White House yesterday, Trump regaled congressional Republican and Democratic leaders with an anecdote that allegedly proves voter fraud is a real thing.

Trump reportedly told congressional leaders that a golfing buddy saw some brown people voting.

The witnesses described the story this way: Mr. Langer, a 59-year-old native of Bavaria, Germany — a winner of the Masters twice and of more than 100 events on major professional golf tours around the world — was standing in line at a polling place near his home in Florida on Election Day, the president explained, when an official informed Mr. Langer he would not be able to vote.

Ahead of and behind Mr. Langer were voters who did not look as if they should be allowed to vote, Mr. Trump said, according to the staff members — but they were nonetheless permitted to cast provisional ballots. The president threw out the names of Latin American countries that the voters might have come from.

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Aside from the obvious, there's another really big problem with this story.

Mr. Langer, who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., is a German citizen with permanent residence status in the United States who is, by law, barred from voting, according to Mr. Langer’s daughter Christina.

“He is a citizen of Germany,” she said, when reached on her father’s cellphone. “He is not a friend of President Trump’s, and I don’t know why he would talk about him.”

Trump's ridiculous, racist story probably didn't even happen.

Langer released a statement this morning that strongly implied that Trump misrepresented the real story. That's clearly the case given that Langer cannot vote. What reason would he have to go stand in line and watch Latino voters cast provisional ballots?

Trump probably doesn't even know what a provisional ballot is.