Ryan on Trump's voter fraud investigation: ‘I think it’s fine’

House Speaker Paul Ryan on Wednesday endorsed President Donald Trump’s call to launch an investigation into voter fraud in the presidential election.

“I think it’s fine,” Ryan told MSNBC’s Greta Van Susteren.


As he had Tuesday, Ryan made a point of saying that he has not seen any evidence to support Trump’s unsubstantiated claim, repeatedly debunked by independent fact-checkers, that his loss in the popular vote was a result of millions of people voting illegally for Hillary Clinton. But Ryan, noting that he is “sure there is some fraud,” suggested that an investigation into the issue is the right step to establishing the facts if Trump really believes the claim.

“If he believes there's a problem to be looked at, the right thing to do is get an investigation, to get the facts,” Ryan said. “I haven't seen evidence of this kind of widespread numbers that we've been hearing about. The thing to do is to get an investigation to get the facts and then make a judgment based on the facts.”

Ryan said lawmakers on Capitol Hill, however, have not discussed investigating the issue themselves.

Trump has come under fire for advancing his unsupported claim about rampant voter fraud from Democrats and some Republicans, as well, like Sen. Lindsey Graham, who warned that the president is undermining the democratic process.

Voter fraud is very rare, and widespread voter fraud is virtually nonexistent, according to a series of studies on the issue.