As Americans Wait for Covid Relief, Trump Starts Christmas Eve Tweeting Outrageous Voter Fraud Lies From Mar-a-Lago
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President Donald Trump started his morning Christmas Eve by tweeting videos filled with outrageous lies about voter fraud, as Americans wait to the effects of his 11th-hour intervention in Covid relief negotiations.
Trump skipped town Wednesday after potentially blowing up a painstakingly-negotiated coronavirus relief bill with a demand that individual payments be increased from $600 to $2000, and after vetoing a massive defense appropriations bill.
But on Thursday morning, his attempt to overthrow the election he’s lost over and over to President-elect Joe Biden was top of mind, as he tweeted Trump campaign ads that were chock full of lies, as well as a string of bizarre humblebrags about how he got the most votes of any candidate who isn’t Joe Biden, the guy who beat him with million more votes.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 24, 2020
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 24, 2020
Those tweets were immediately labeled, by Twitter, with the now-familiar disclaimer “! This claim about election fraud is disputed.”
If you care about anything else Trump tweets on Christmas Eve, check back here for updates. If not, we will have lots of other content for you to enjoy.
UPDATE – 4:29 p.m. ET: Trump resumed his Christmas tweeting over his election loss, declaring “VOTER FRAUD IS NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY, IT IS A FACT!!!”
At a meeting in Florida today, everyone was asking why aren’t the Republicans up in arms & fighting over the fact that the Democrats stole the rigged presidential election? Especially in the Senate, they said, where you helped 8 Senators win their races. How quickly they forget!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 24, 2020
Maria’s show and ratings are better than ever. They are trying to shame her into not telling the truth. Her audience would be gone, and she is far too smart for that. Rigged Election! https://t.co/g3AyaOx3dv
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 24, 2020
VOTER FRAUD IS NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY, IT IS A FACT!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 24, 2020
As for Trump’s tweet about Maria Bartiromo, the president chose not to address the fact that the Fox News host recently aired a fact-check on the conspiracy theories she and several of her colleagues have pushed about the election.
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