Trump Gets His Information From Infowars

No wonder he's got things so messed up. Folks, that's where the president-elect gets his information about the world: from the darkest, seamiest corners of the Internet. God help us all.

As I've said earlier, in posts entitled Stupid Trump Tweet and Stupid Trump Tweet Updated, this is a Trump tweet, apparently in reaction to the Jill Stein recount in Wisconsin and the fact that Hillary's campaign will be helping:

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

The "Updated" post goes into the apparent source of Trump's mistaken belief (to give him the benefit of the doubt). Trump is a fan of Alex Jones, his radio talk show -- in liberal Austin, Texas, of all places -- and his fearmongering website, Infowars, hotbed of conspiracy theories. (Swastikas painted on a door? Black church burned down? False flag operations, every one of them, done by liberals financed and organized by George Soros! The Sandy Hook massacre of elementary school children? A total fake, with the roles of grieving parents being played by actors!) There's enough information on the Trump/Infowars connection to justify a separate post.

Here's a video clip from Infowars of Jones ranting on his radio program. It's a long one; 22:50. I highly recommend that you don't bother watching it all. I did, and believe me, I wish I had 22 of those minutes back; I could have used them to clean my bathroom. Below the clip, I've transcribed a few sentences, from 6:54 to 7:40.

JONES: This is all part of the destabilization of this country, ladies and gentlemen. I'm going to go over, though, the evidence that it is uncontrovertible [sic] fact that 3 million illegals voted and that tens of millions of people were on the voter rolls who were dead, and at least 4 million of them voted as well. So what's 3 and 4 million? 7 million people voted that were either not citizens, were illegal, or were dead. Now, that's Associated Press, that's Reuters, that's Fox News, that's Pew Research. That is not debatable. We're going to put some of those articles up on screens. Some numbers had 20 million dead people potentially voting. But conservatively, we know of 4 million.

He claims he's "going to go over, though, the evidence ..." Watch the video if you must, to satisfy yourself that no, he doesn't produce one shred of evidence; there is nothing whatever to support his straight-faced lies.

"Now, that's Associated Press, that's Reuters, that's Fox News, that's Pew Research." No, it isn't. None of those organizations have said anything resembling Jones's claims. Fox can be pretty shady, but they're not on the same despicable level as Alex Jones. As I said, Jones produces no evidence whatsoever to back up his ludicrous claims.