"I've never heard of somebody complaining about being cheated before the game was over," President Barack Obama said. Obama swats down Trump: 'Of course the election will not be rigged'

President Barack Obama strongly and repeatedly rejected Donald Trump’s claims the November election will be “rigged” on Thursday, dismissing the idea as a “conspiracy theory.”

“Of course the election will not be rigged,” Obama said forcefully during a news conference at the Pentagon.


“That’s ridiculous,” Obama continued. “That doesn’t make any sense. I don’t think anybody would take that seriously.”

Trump has repeatedly warned that he thinks the presidential election will be “rigged” against him by a “crooked” system that supports Hillary Clinton.

“You don’t have to have voter ID to now go in and vote, and it’s a little bit scary, and I’ve heard a lot of bad things,” Trump told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly this week. “I mean, people are going to walk in, they are going to vote 10 times maybe.”

“I think all of us at some points in our lives have played sports or maybe just played in a schoolyard or sandbox, and sometimes folks if they lose, they complain they got cheated,” Obama countered on Thursday. “But I’ve never heard of somebody complaining about being cheated before the game was over. Or before the score is even tallied.”

He added: “If Mr. Trump is up 10 or 15 points on Election Day, and then loses, then I think maybe he can raise some questions.”