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Q: Did NPR report that a study found over 25 million Hillary Clinton votes were completely fraudulent, and that she actually lost the popular vote?

A: No. That claim was made in a story that conflates a 2012 article about inaccuracies in voter registration rolls with actual fraudulent votes.

Saw something about NPR doing a study finding there were 25 million fraudulent votes for Hillary meaning she did not win the popular vote. Any truth?

NPR did not report that a study found over 25 million Hillary Clinton votes were completely fraudulent, meaning that the Democratic candidate actually lost the popular vote by a huge margin. Nor is there a study by the Pew Center claiming that over 800,000 non-citizens voted for Clinton.

Those false claims were made in an itempublished July 26on Conservativearmy88.com that Facebook users flagged as potentially fake news. The same story appearedJan. 29 on YourNewsWire.com, which was based in part on anearlier articlefrom Infowars a conservative website notorious for advancing conspiracy theories and publishing thinly sourced reports.

Inthis case, YourNewsWire.com and later conservativearmy88.com misrepresented the Infowars story, which did not claim that Clinton received more than 25 million fraudulent votes in the 2016 presidential election. That would be more than one-third of hernearly 66 millionvotes.

First, lets look at what Infowars wrote.

Infowars, Jan. 27: A study revealing that over 800,000 non-citizens voted for Hillary Clinton doesnt account for dead and fraudulent voters, which accounted for over 25 million registered voters during the 2012 presidential election and little has changed since then.

Illegal alien voters combined with dead and multiple state voters could easily explain Clintons popular vote margin over Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, especially considering that her victory came from Democratic-controlled counties known for illegal immigration and loose voter ID laws such as in New York and California.

A report by the Pew Center on the States finds that more than 1.8 million dead people are currently registered to vote, and 24 million registrations are either invalid or inaccurate, NPR reported in 2012, which is ironic given how NPR is heavily controlled by Democrats.

NPR did report in 2012 on astudy by the Pew Center on the States that found that about 24 million voting registrations in the U.S. were invalid or inaccurate, including more than 1.8 million deceased persons who were still on the voter registration rolls.

Of course, the Pew report made no claims about the outcome of the 2016 presidential campaign.

Still, YourNewsWire.com went beyond NPRs reporting to falsely state, A study published by NPR reveals that over 25 million Hillary Clinton votes were completely fraudulent, meaning that the Democratic candidate actually lost the popular vote by a huge margin.

Aswe havewritten,when President Donald Trump also misrepresented the 2012 Pew report, inaccuracies in voter registration rolls are not the same as actual fraudulent votes.

The authors of the Pew report said their study showed that voter rolls are susceptible to fraud, though they did not claim it was evidence of actual fraud. Rather, they said that it was evidence of the need to upgrade and update voter registration systems.

In a tweet on Nov. 28, 2016, the primary author of the report, David Becker, said:

In addition, there is no study by the Pew Center that says more than 800,000 noncitizens voted for Clinton in 2016, as the YourNewsWire.com story claims.

In its story,Infowarsreferred toa study revealing that over 800,000 non-citizens voted for Hillary Clinton, but it wasnt a Pew study. In fact, there was no study at all that made such a claim.

Infowars misrepresented the work of Old Dominion University political scientist Jesse Richman. The website did not mention Richman, but it linked to aJan. 26 articleby the Washington Times about Richman specifically a blog posthe wrote that refuted Trumps claim about voter fraud.

Trump claimedin a tweet on Nov. 27, 2016, that he would havewon the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally. Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes. Drawing on his 2014 studyof noncitizen votingin the 2008 election, Richmanextrapolated that Clinton could have received 834,318 additional votes from noncitizens.(Richmans 2014 study,as wehavewritten, is controversial and has been disputed a point that Richman noted in his blog post.)

Based on national polling by a consortium of universities, a report by Mr. Richman said 6.4 percent of the estimated 20 million adult noncitizens in the U.S. voted in November, theTimeswrote. He extrapolated that that percentage would have added 834,381 [sic] net votes for Mrs. Clinton, who received about 2.8 million more votes than Mr. Trump.

In aJan. 27 blog postresponding to the WashingtonTimesarticle, Richman made clear that he was not asserting that Clinton actually received 834,318 votes (the Times incorrectly said 834,381 votes). He said he doesnt know how many noncitizens may have voted for Clinton.

What extrapolation I did to the 2016 election was purely and explicitly and exclusively for the purpose of pointing out that my 2014 study of the 2008 election did not provide evidence of voter fraud at the level some Trump administration people were claiming it did, Richman wrote.

In an update to that post, Richman added, As I have no national data specifically for 2016 I do not have a specific point estimate for that year.

Editors note: FactCheck.org is one of several organizations working with Facebookto help identify and label viral fake news stories flagged by readers on the social media network.

Adl-Tabatabai, Sean. NPR: 25 Million Votes For Clinton Completely Fake She Lost Popular Vote. Yournewswire.com. 29 Jan 2017.

Daniels, Kit. Bombshell: At Least 25 Million Dead and Fraudulent Registered Voters in 2016. Infowars.com. 27 Jan 2017.

Scarborough, Rowan. Trump argument bolstered: Clinton could have received 800,000 votes from noncitizens. Washington Times. 26 Jan 2017.

Richman, Jesse, et al. Do non-citizens vote in U.S. elections? Electoral Studies, Volume 36. Dec 2014.

Ansolabehere, Stephen, et al. The perils of cherry picking low frequency events in large sample surveys. Electoral Studies, Volume 40. Jul 2015.

Daniels, Kit. Bombshell: At Least 25 Million Dead and Fraudulent Registered Voters in 2016. Infowars.com. 27 Jan 2017.

Pew Center on the States. Inaccurate, Costly, and Inefficient. Feb 2012.

Fessler, Pam. Study: 1.8 Million Dead People Still Registered To Vote. NPR. 14 Feb 2012.

Farley, Robert. Trumps Bogus Voter Fraud Claims. FactCheck.org. 19 Oct 2016.

Farley, Robert. More Bogus Voter Fraud from Trump. 21 Oct 2016

Farley, Robert. Trump Sticks With Bogus Voter Fraud Claims. 28 Nov 2016

Farley, Robert. Trumps Bogus Voter Fraud Claims Revisited. 25 Jan 2017.

Farley, Robert. More Trump Deception on Voter Fraud. 26 Jan 2017.

Richman, Jesse. I do not support the Washington Times Piece. Old Dominion University. Blog post. 31 Jan 2017.

Richman, Jesse. Is it plausible that non-citizen votes account for the entire margin of Trumps popular vote loss to Clinton? Old Dominion University. Blog post. 24 Jan 2017.

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25 Million Clinton Votes Weren't Fake - FactCheck.org

Between Russian meddling in last years election, Donald Trumps decision to fire FBI Director James Comey and the presidents public drubbing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions,the House Judiciary Committee has a lot it could be looking into.

But its Republican chairman, Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, has a different priority: investigating Hillary Clinton.

Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Goodlatte has called for new scrutiny of decisions made by President Barack Obamas Justice Department in its probe of Clintons use of a private email server, as well as alleged Clinton ties to foreign governments and the leaking of classified information.

Thats put House Democrats in the odd position of praising another Republican -- Goodlattes Senate counterpart, Chuck Grassley of Iowa. The Senate Judiciary chairman has threatened to subpoena Trumps son to testify about possible collusion with Russia during the presidential campaign and demanded records about Russian interactions with Trump family members and campaign officials.

"Weve got to give Grassley and the Senate credit,"Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, a House Judiciary Committee Democrat, said at a hearing last week. "They are not over there denying the reality of what is going on."

Republicans in Congress have struggled to calibrate their approaches to the Russia investigation and the current administrations actions, with many of them torn between protecting a Republican administration from partisan attacks and conducting defensive oversight in case significant wrongdoing emerges.

The House Judiciary panel has remained unusually standoffish. When Democrats on the panel triedlast week to force through a resolution demanding more information on Sessionss role in Comeys firing, Goodlatte and Republicans on the panel turned it into a request demanding new probes into Clinton.

Goodlatte has done zero - absolutely zero -- as chairman to look into these things," Jerrold Nadler of New York, a Democrat on the House Judiciary panel, said in an interview. "Certainly, Senator Grassley doesnt agree with that thinking."

Goodlatte, who didnt respond to a request for an interview, has said there are plenty of other investigations underway, including by the House and Senate Intelligence panels, as well as a continuing FBI probe led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

"Until Mr. Muellers investigation is complete, it is redundant for the House of Representatives to engage in fact-gathering on many of the same issues he is investigating," Goodlatte said at a hearing last week.

Given all the probes, he said theres no reason for his panel to use taxpayer dollars to investigate the Trump campaigns connections -- or lack thereof -- to the Russian government."

John Conyers of Michigan, the top Democrat on the committee, does credit Goodlatte for trying to schedule a briefing with Mueller, where the pair are expected get an update on his probe. But unless Goodlatte and his committee gets more involved in doing its own work, Conyers warns "lasting damage" could be inflicted on the Justice Department on Goodlattes watch.

Nadler added that it is the responsibility of the Judiciary Committee to oversee or even protect the independence of the Justice Department and FBI, and thats whats at stake now, he says.

Both the Senate Judiciary and Intelligence committees are looking into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. The Senate Judiciary panel is also looking into Trumps dismissal of Comey, who had been leading the investigation into Russias meddling any possible connections to the Trump camp.

But concern from lawmakers from both parties has continued to rise in recent weeks, fueled by Trumps repeated public criticisms of Sessions for recusing himself from the Justice Departments Russia probe. Lawmakers from both parties have said they stood by Sessions and that the presidents comments were inappropriate.

Yet rather than turn to those issues, Goodlatte and the Republican members of his panel sent a letter to Sessions demanding he appoint a second special counsel to investigate troubling, unanswered questions related to Trumps Democratic opponent in the election, as well as several officials appointed by Obama.

Many congressional entities have been engaged in oversight of Russian influence on the election, but a comprehensive investigation into the 2016 presidential campaign and its aftermath must, similarly, be free of even the suggestion of political interference, they wrote.

Goodlatte, 64, is a conservative Republican representing some of the reddest parts of Virginia. He has a lifetime grade of A from the National Rifle Association and branded as unconstitutional the Obama administrations plan to defer deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants.

His panel is also the one that would have jurisdiction over any impeachment proceeding, a step that several Democrats have called for. For that to happen, the Republican-dominated House would have to authorize the Judiciary Committee to investigate, and then Goodlattes panel would vote on whether theres enough evidence for impeachment.

While Goodlatte has been willing over the years to collaborate with Democrats on some issues, Russia isnt one of them.

"This president is a threat to this nation, to its constitution, to its democracy -- and we are doing nothing to respond, said Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, a House Judiciary Committee Democrat, at a hearing last week. Except, lets go back and look at Hillary Clintons emails?"

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Grassley, who for months has defended the Trump administration, recently has taken a harder line. Last week, Grassleys committee held a hearing that touched on whether the Kremlin might have been behind a June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer. Grassley also joined with his panels top Democrat,Dianne Feinstein of California, in using the threat of subpoenas to force former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and Trump Jr. to provide documents and sit down for interviews.

When Trump recently began publicly criticizing Sessions,a former senator from Alabama, over his recusal from the Russia investigation, Grassley said his panel wouldnt consider confirming a replacement this year.

Goodlatte has been silent on Trumps criticisms of Sessions, which has left Democrats in the unusual position of defending the former senator from Alabama.

"Whatever we think about the political views of Attorney General Sessions, this conduct is not right. It is not normal. And it deserves the immediate attention of this committee," Conyers said during last weeks hearing.

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee say they back Goodlattes position.

"The Democrats make sure that just about all we talk about in Judiciary is Russia -- even though they dont even know how to find Russia on the map, said Representative Trent Franks of Arizona in an interview. They just want to use it as a political bludgeon against Trump."

Andy Biggs of Arizona, another Republican on the panel, says there are plenty of Russia investigations already underway. Like Goodlatte, he sees a need to investigate Obama administration officials, saying there are unresolved questions about Clintons emails and other topics.

Those need to be answered, he said at last weeks hearing.

Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland has a different view: "If all this is simply meant to somehow distract and divert from the ongoing special counsel investigation and somehow to create the idea of symmetry and parity, that strikes me as antithetical to the purposes of this committee."

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House Judiciary Chairman's Priority: Investigating Hillary Clinton - Bloomberg

BY: Cameron Cawthorne August 2, 2017 10:03 am

John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on Wednesday that he loses sleep "every night" with the "burden" of having lost the Electoral College to Donald Trump.

Camerota asked Podesta whether Clinton was surprised at how often Trump invokesher name this far into his presidency.

"It's unprecedented," Podesta said. " You never saw that behavior from any other president who's talking about the person they beat. I think it really just bugs the hell out of him that she got three million more votes than hedid and he keeps coming back to that."

"Obviously we bear the burden of having lost the Electoral College, so I lose sleep about that every night," Podesta added.

Camerota followed up by asking Podesta what Clinton thinks about being under Trump's skin for winning the popular vote.

"Well look, I think she'll have something to say about that when her book comes out mid-September, and I think she's reflected on the mistakes that she made, what she mighthave done different, but I think she'll alsotalk about where the country is and how to move forward," Podesta said. "That's what she's always done in her life when she's gotten knocked down. She's tried to make a positive contribution coming out of that, and I think that that's what this book will attempt to do."

Hillary Clinton's memoir, What Happened,will be a reflection on her 2016 election loss to Trump and will be released on Sept. 12.

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Podesta: I Lose Sleep 'Every Night' About Clinton Losing Electoral College - Washington Free Beacon

White House senior aideKellyanne Conway on Tuesday said if she needed harmful information about Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonLawsuit claims Trump involvement in retracted Fox story on Seth Rich North Korea targeted emails of Clinton advisers: report GOP rep on Trump dictating Russia meeting statement: Best to have maximum amount of transparency MORE she would turn to the Democratic presidential candidate herself, rather than Russia.

Look, I was the campaign manager for the winning part of the campaign and if I needed negative information about Hillary Clinton, I look no further than Hillary Clinton, Conway told Fox News Special Report with Bret Baier.

You certainly didnt need to go to Moscow. You could just see what she was saying everyday. No optimistic economic message for America, Conway said.

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Conway and other Trump aides have pushed back afterThe Washington Post reported that President Trump dictated the statement his eldest son Donald TrumpDonald TrumpHow Polish populism explains Trump and the rebirth of nationalism Lewandowski: Priebus 'ultimately responsible' for White House leaks Ex-Cruz aide: Now Bannon is establishment voice in Trump White House MORE Jr. provided to The New York Times regarding a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign.

Trump Jr., along with the president's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, sat down for the June 2016 meeting after Trump Jr. was told the lawyer had damaging information about Clinton.

The president weighed in because fathers do that, Conway said on the report that the presidenthimself drafted the statement.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered a similar argument earlier Tuesday while disputing that the initial statement contained inaccurate or misleading information.

The aide'scomments largely appeared to confirm the Post report that Trump was personally involved in drafting the statement, potentially opening him up to further legal scrutiny.

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BY: Kathryn Covert August 1, 2017 2:36 pm

A former top Hillary Clinton adviser made it clear on Monday that he will not come around to welcoming Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) and his supporters into the Democratic Party.

In an 11-tweet rant, Peter Daou, a strategist and internet director for Clinton's presidential run in 2008, railed against Sanders and his followers, writing that they are "detrimental" tothe Democratic party.

Daou began with a jab at Sanders' popularity before diving into the latest actions that provoked his ire. The Clinton supporter accused Sanders of being a "destructive force." He added that Sanders and his "diehard followers" are targeting rising stars in the Democratic Party, including Sens. Kamala Harris(D., Calif.) and Cory Booker (D., N.J.).

Daou also accused Sanders supporters of continuing to use "rightwing" talking points against Clinton.

The self-described political analyst then dove deeper into the "destruction" caused by Sanders. He said that the Vermont senator spent "two years on a rampage" against Democrats.

Daou then returnedto the issue of Sanders' popularityapparently a sticking point for him. He references a so-called "highly misleading" Harvard-Harris poll, which claimed that Sanders is the most popular active politician in the United States.

Daou disagreed with the polls' results due to his observation that Sanders is not "compared to all politicians," but rather "just a handful."

In an effort to explain why Sanders being the "most popular" politician isin his viewabsurd, Daou said that Sanders did not face nearly the scrutiny that Clinton did during the 2016 campaign.He then gave props to Clinton for her fortitude, commenting on how despite the "smears," her numbers after leaving the Department of State were better than Sanders' are now.

Close to wrapping things up, Daou called for Democratic leaders to "let go" of the notion that Sanders could turn Trump voters to vote for the Democratic party. He said that Democrats have an "exciting field developing" and Sanders is "not one of them."

In a final tweet, Daou clarified that he does not see his actions being in any way likeSanders'. He said that as soon as Sanders and his supporters "stop slamming Dems," he will "stop fighting back."

Prior to Monday's tweetstorm, Daou was an outspoken critic of Sanders.

On Nov. 30, weeks after Clinton lost the presidential election to Donald Trump, Daou tweeted that Sanders had "absolutely no business determining the course of the Democratic Party after the harm he did to us."

On Jan. 6, he repeated those sentiments regarding the "damage" Sanders caused.

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