President Trump’s assertion that the 2016 election was plagued by massive voter fraud stems in part from a German professional golfer, according to a report.
The commander-in-chief has claimed that millions voted illegally in November, and posted on Twitter that he is asking for a “major investigation” into it.
Though many in his own party have said there is no evidence for such fraud, his claims reportedly are based on a conversation with “very famous golfer Bernhard Langer,” the New York Times reported Wednesday.
The newspaper reported that during a meeting with congressional leaders on Monday, Trump said that Langer told him of how he was not allowed to vote at a Florida polling station.
Trump reportedly relayed that other voters who appeared to be of Latin American descent were allowed to cast provisional ballots.
The President’s supposed go-to evidence for massive electoral unfairness may be more full of holes than hole-in-one, however.
Langer, a two-time Masters champion, is a permanent Florida resident who remains a citizen of Germany and cannot legally vote in the U.S., his daughter told the Times.
“He is not a friend of President Trump’s, and I don’t know why he would talk about him,” she said.
A senior White House staffer told the Times that Langer told Trump the story over Thanksgiving in Florida, and that it actually refers to a friend of the golfer who could not vote.
Trump lost November’s popular vote by almost 3 million votes to Hillary Clinton, but won the Electoral College with more than 300 electors.
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