As votes are counted, President Trump ramps up
attacks.
Nov. 5,
2020, 1:30 p.m. ET22 minutes ago
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By Kevin
Draper
Even as
vote-counting proceeds around the country, President Trump is continuing to
attack the legitimacy of the election.
In an
all-caps written statement issued Thursday afternoon by his campaign, Mr. Trump
made unsupported claims of fraud, saying that “if you count the illegal and
late votes, they can steal the election from us!”
The Trump
campaign is issuing statements as the president’s own efforts to make such
allegations directly have run afoul of fact-checking restrictions implemented
by social media platforms.
Three of
the president’s tweets Thursday, and one from his son Eric Trump, were hidden
by Twitter behind a disclaimer that read, “some or all of the content shared in
this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic
process.”
One of the
hidden Tweets simply said, “STOP THE FRAUD!”
On
Facebook, none of the president’s posts were hidden, but many of them had fact
checks appended, including one that said “voter fraud is extremely rare across
voting methods.”
The Trump
campaign has also increased its attacks on Arnon Mishkin, who runs the decision
desk at Fox News. The campaign said in a statement, without citing evidence,
that Mishkin “put his finger on the scale for Joe Biden.” Mishkin’s
election-night call that Arizona’s electoral votes would go to Joe Biden, which
many other news organizations have not yet echoed, angered President Trump and
his campaign.
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