The president made the announcement in an interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly that aired Sunday, televised just hours before the Super Bowl sporting event.
“I’m going to set up a commission to headed by Vice President Mike Pence and we’re going to look at it very, very carefully,” the president told O’Reilly.
President Trump said he will launch an investigation into what he calls widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election. He maintains votes were cast…
Despite a lack of evidence to back up his repeated claims of widespread voter fraud, the president has continued to press the issue. Even after his inauguration, Mr. Trump insisted he would have won the popular vote (which he lost to Hillary Clinton by nearly three million ballots) if it weren’t for illegal votes cast.
Mr. Trump has yet to keep his long-standing promise to issue executive actions ordering an investigation into the alleged fraud.
In his interview, O’Reilly pushed back on the president’s claims, telling Mr. Trump, “you gotta have data to back that up.”
In response, the president said to look at voter registrations as proof.
“When you look at the registration and you see dead people that have voted, when you see people that are registered in two states, that have voted in two states, when you see other things, when you see illegal people that are not citizens and they are on the registration roles — look, Bill, we can be babies, but you take a look at the registration, you have illegals, you have dead people you have this, it’s really a bad situation, it’s really bad,” Mr. Trump said.
The Fox News host continued to press him for evidence.
“The data already shows that 3 million illegals voted?” O’Reilly questioned.
“Forget that, forget all that,” the president said in response. “Just take a look at the registration and we’re going to do it.”

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Senate Republicans are balking at President Trump’s latest defense of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
In an interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly scheduled to air today, Mr. Trump seemed to dismiss criticisms of the Russian president as a “killer” and appeared to equate the foreign power’s morality with the U. S.
“I do respect him,” the president said of his Russian counterpart. “I respect a lot of people but that doesn’t mean I’m going to get along with him.”
When the Fox News host said, “Putin’s a killer,” the President Trump responded by saying: “There are a lot of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What, you think our country is so innocent?”
But despite the warmer relationship Mr. Trump may be trying to build with Moscow , his words have already had a chilling effect on some Congressional leaders at home.
When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was grilled by CNN anchor Jake Tapper about Mr. Trump’s interview, McConnell offered up a mild rebuke of the statements.
“Does it trouble you that he said this?” Tapper questioned the Kentucky Republican. “I’m trying to imagine your response if President Obama defended the murderous reign of Vladimir Putin by saying, ‘you think our country is so innocent?’”
“I’m not going to critique the president’s every utterance,” McConnell responded. “But I do think America is exceptional, America is different, we don’t operate in any way the way the Russians do.”
“I think there’s a clear distinction here that all Americans understand,” added McConnell. “And no, I would not have characterized it that way… I don’t think there’s any equivalency between the way that the Russians conduct themselves and the way the United States does.”
The majority leader said he “obviously” doesn’t “see the issue the same way [Mr. Trump] does.”
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, gave a more strident statement Sunday in response to the president’s comments about Putin, and alluded to the Russian leader’s reported use of nefarious techniques to get his political opponents out of the way.
When has a Democratic political activists been poisoned by the GOP, or vice versa? We are not the same as #Putin. MR
Rubio then escalated his criticism of Putin, blasting the Russian president for “violations” of Ukraine’s “sovereignty,” a reference to Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the ongoing war along Ukraine’s eastern border.
Only reason we should ever lift sanctions on #Putin is if he meets conditions of sanctions & ends violations of #ukraine sovereignty. MR
Another Republican senator, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, came out with his own fierce condemnation of Mr. Trump’s remarks.
“Is the U. S. at all like Putin’s regime? Not at all,” Sasse told ABC News in an interview Sunday. He went on to enumerate the differences: “The U. S. affirms freedom of speech; Putin is no friend of freedom of speech. Putin is an enemy of freedom of religion; the U. S. celebrates freedom of religion. Putin is an enemy of the free press; the U. S. celebrates free press.”
He added: “There is no moral equivalency between the United States of America — the greatest freedom-loving nation in the history of the world — and the murderous thugs that are in Putin’s defense on his cronyism.”
The staunchest defense of Mr. Trump’s comments has come from within his administration.
On Sunday, Vice President Mike Pence said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” that Mr. Trump was only expressing a willingness to “start afresh with Putin and to start afresh with Russia.”
“I simply don’t accept that there was any moral equivalency in the president’s comments,” Pence said. “Look, President Trump throughout his life, his campaign, and in this administration has never hesitated to be critical of government policies by the United States in the past. But there was no moral equivalency.”
Democrats, predictably, have also expressed their outrage at Mr. Trump’s sentiments.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota said in an interview on ABC News that she “resent[s]” that the president would equate Russia with the U. S.
“You cannot compare any leaders in our country to what Vladimir Putin has done,” Klobuchar said. “This is a man and a regime that has taken down a passenger plane in Ukraine, killing hundreds of people. This is a regime that has been known to poison human rights activists.”

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Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said 20 year-old Chanel Lewis, of Brooklyn, was expected to be arraigned later Sunday. The charge carries a penalty of 25 years to life in prison if he’s convicted. No information on an attorney for him was available.
Lewis was arrested Saturday night. Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said Lewis “made detailed, incriminating statements and admissions” to detectives when he was arrested.
Karina Vetrano was killed Aug. 2 after going for a run not far from her Queens home. Her father later discovered her badly beaten body in a secluded marsh.
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CBS New York reported that, according to officials speaking at a news conference Sunday morning, DNA evidence found on Vetrano’s body linked Lewis to the crime.
“Karina helped us identify this person,” Boyce said. “She had the DNA under her nails, she had touch DNA on her back and there was more DNA on the cell phone. That’s how we were able to bring the profile up and that’s how we made the link.”
Karina Vetrano
Boyce said the encounter that led to 30-year-old Vetrano’s death apparently was a chance one.
He says DNA evidence led to the arrest. Genetic material found under Vetrano’s fingernails and on her phone and neck resulted in a DNA profile.

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