The Daily Show suggests Donald Trump may not know he's actually rigging the election
Donald Trump's presidential campaign is struggling with mounting problems and falling poll numbers, Trevor Noah said on Monday's Daily Show. "Now there's a reason everything is going wrong for Donald Trump: It's because he's a terrible man who's done terrible things and has a terrible plan for the country." But Trump, of course, has a different theory for why he's really losing: The election is "rigged."
Trump has claimed lots of things are rigged — Mitt Romney's loss in 2012, The Apprentice losing an Emmy, the electoral college — but "obviously making a claim that a U.S. presidential election is rigged is a very serious and unprecedented thing to do, and it poisons the well for anyone who becomes president," Noah said. "But luckily Trump has offered specific evidence of these crimes." That would be black voters stealing votes and the "vague antisemitic conspiracy theory" that "international banks" are colluding with Clinton. "So let me get this straight," Noah said: "Hillary's been running for 20 years just so that when she finally gets power she can hand it over to the bank? Clearly you haven't met Hillary."
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