Psaki played a clip of Trump claiming in a speech to his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, that Pennsylvania had “205,000 more votes than you had voters” and calling the 2020 election “a total fraud,” but said he didn’t come up with that narrative on his own.
“He got it from this woman, Heather Honey,” Psaki said Tuesday. “Honey is an absolutely rabid election denier, a conspiracy theorist and a protégé of Cleta Mitchell, one of the lawyers who tried and failed to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results.”
The news host continued, “Honey, in particular, misrepresented voter data to sell the idea that Pennsylvania somehow had more votes than voters, which was not at all true.” Psaki then noted that Trump nonetheless “cited it as proof” as recently as last year that the election was stolen.
“You heard me right,” Psaki said after sharing the news.
“A senior role in Trump’s Department of Homeland Security that is supposed to primarily protect our elections from foreign interference, which is an ongoing threat no matter who is president. Let that soak in for a second,” she added.
“That’s two-thirds of the country who agree on very little,” she said. “And if you believe you can’t win votes honestly and with integrity — and by the way, getting more people to vote for you, which is how you win elections — this is what you do to hold onto power.”
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It’s “obvious” why Honey was hired by the Trump administration, Psaki said, and argued that it’s not because the conservative election denier “has some sort of immaculate record of protecting voting systems against security threats.”
Psaki concluded, “She’s in this job because of her connection to Trump, who used her lies to his advantage and who may now continue to do so in elections to come.”
