[O'Reilly Factor] Is Our Political System Rigged?
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"With two weeks left in perhaps the nastiest presidential race in
history, many Americans just want the whole thing to end. But Donald
Trump has raised the specter of a fixed election, he says the system is
rigged. Bernie Sanders got hosed by his own party because many of the super-delegates were locked in for Hillary, so that primary system was
rigged for sure. Trump sees it a bit differently, believing that the left-leaning media combined with suspect voting patterns is how the
system is rigged. So let's look at the facts: With more than 100
million Americans voting, it is virtually impossible for the actual
vote tally to be rigged. But a Pew study says that there are serious
problems involving voter registration. On the media front there is no
question that Americans are not getting objective reporting because so
many journalists are committed to the left. Also, there is growing
evidence that our justice system has been compromised. Because Hillary
Clinton is in the middle of that, a case can be made that the election
had been rigged in her favor. The latest story involves the number two
man in the FBI, Andrew McCabe. His wife, Dr. Jill McCabe, received
close to $700,000 from a close friend of Hillary Clinton's, Virginia
Governor Terry McAuliffe. Dr. McCabe was running for the state senate
in Virginia and a McAuliffe-controlled PAC gave her the money. At the
time Hillary Clinton was being investigated by the FBI and Andrew
McCabe was involved in that investigation. So McCabe should have
recused himself. Talking Points is not saying there is corruption, but
the optics are awful and FBI Director James Comey had to know that. If
you combine the McCabe stuff with Comey not calling for a grand jury
and basically giving Secretary Clinton every benefit of the doubt, you
have the appearance of impropriety. So it's no surprise that many
Americans, including Trump, believe the system is rigged. Did I mention Attorney General Loretta Lynch meeting with Bill Clinton during the investigation? I mean, come on. Again, the vote cannot possibly be
rigged, and Mr. Trump should accept whatever happens unless there is
compelling evidence of corruption. But overall, if you don't think the
federal political and justice system has severe problems, you're living
in the Land of Oz.
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