House Democrat: Trump ‘lied to the American public’ in primetime address 

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, accused President Trump of misleading the country in his Thursday evening speech about the state of election security in the U.S.

“The president of the United States lied to the American public today,” Himes said on MS NOW following the primetime address. 

“It was a bald-faced, 180 degree, obviously provable lie,” he continued. 

Himes said he reviewed the trove of reports released Thursday evening by the White House that claimed to produce new evidence to support the president’s claims of widespread voter fraud. Independent experts have said these documents contain previously reported weaknesses in the electoral process. 

“There is absolutely nothing in that intelligence that substantiates what he was saying,” Himes said. 

The president also used his........

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