.MaddowBlog: When all else fails, Trump still has a map to make him feel better
In late-April 2017, Donald Trump appeared to have lingering insecurities about the legitimacy of his election. It was not entirely irrational: the Republican had badly lost the popular vote, and he’d benefited from illegal Russian intervention and a highly dubious move from then-FBI Director James Comey. The president was obviously in office, but many saw an asterisk.
All of this came to mind again yesterday – which is to say, nearly three years into Trump’s presidency, long past the point at which this map should be a point of preoccupation. It’s worth emphasizing a few relevant details. First, the map had nothing to do with the subject at hand, and it was not referenced at any point during the Oval Office event, at least not during the portions seen by the public. Second, the map is wrong: it purports to show county-by-county results, but it shows a variety of counties that Hillary Clinton won in red. It doesn’t even get the popular vote right: the map says the Democrat won by 1.1 million votes, when the actual margin was 2.
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