Is Trump delusional? You have to wonder…
… after Donald Trump hijacked his Monday afternoon meeting with congressional leaders to whine about his loss of the popular vote…
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… falsely telling the lawmakers that he would have won a majority if millions of illegal immigrants had not voted against him.
The claim, which he has made before on Twitter, has been judged to be untrue by numerous fact-checkers. But the new president’s willingness to bring it up at Monday’s White House reception in the State Dining Room is an indication that he remains focused on his election even assuming power. …
Several people familiar with the closed-door meeting Monday night, who asked to remain anonymous in discussing a private conversation, said Mr. Trump used the opportunity to brag about his victory.
As part of that conversation, Mr. Trump made the assertion about illegal immigrants voting in huge numbers for Mrs. Clinton. That is similar to a Twitter message he posted in late November that said he would have won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.”
Voting officials across the country have said there is virtually no evidence of people voting illegally, and certainly not millions of them. White House officials did not respond to requests for a comment on Mr. Trump’s discussion of the issue.
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Representative Steny Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland, who attended the meeting, said on CNN that Mr. Trump also talked about the size of the crowd for his inauguration speech.
“It was a huge crowd, a magnificent crowd. I haven’t seen such a crowd as big as this,” Mr. Hoyer told CNN, quoting Mr. Trump. He added that Mr. Trump didn’t “spend a lot of time on that, but it was clear that it was still on his mind.”
The president’s comments about the election results and his inauguration came as he gathered the bipartisan leadership of Congress for a White House reception. He also sought to build support for an ambitious legislative agenda despite days earlier castigating the very institution he needs to approve it.
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