President Donald Trump falsely tweeted Thursday that millions of votes destined for him had been suppressed across the country due to systematic errors through the voting machine, a theory of the absolutely demystified conspiracy that emerged in the confines of the pro-Trump Internet before moving into a well. known fake news site and then to one of Trump’s favorite cable media.
Since Friday, Trump’s allies have circulated scattered reports that “computer disorders” in voting machines in Michigan and other states have shifted Trump’s votes to President-elect Joe Biden, falsely suggesting that they result in electoral manipulation. were temporarily corrected through election officials.
Trump stepped up the theory thursday: he told his millions of un baseless Twitter fans that voting machines manufactured through Dominion Voting Systems had suppressed 2. 7 million Trump votes across the country, throwing a “report” of a conspiratorial and fiercely pro-Trump cable group called one America News Network (OAN).
It is not known where OAN received these figures (the network claimed it was an “unverified knowledge analysis”), but almost the same set of knowledge was first published on Tuesday through The Gateway Pundit, a right-wing online page known for fake news and a story. to publish false statements about voter fraud.
The Gateway Pundit said he received knowledge of an un nameless random message on thedonald. win, a trump ad board known for his racist memes and extremist jokes, who claimed to have tried to calculate the number of votes suppressed using an unofficial vote and counts unfinished election night.
OAN responded to a request for comment.
A handful of Trump allies also announce an unraclosed conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems is motivated through partisan politics, as if his vote counting software is preprogrammed to favor Biden. Some pro-Trump media personalities have pointed to alleged ties with Hillary Clinton. , even though the company is said to have no more dating than a one-time donation to the Clinton Global Initiative.
Trump is making strange claims about the manipulation of votes to help a false narrative that the election was stolen from him because of widespread voter fraud. Their crusade has waged a competitive legal crusade in almost every single undecided state, prosecuting fraud and lack of transparency in Most experts in which such prosecutions, all of which are lacking in strong evidence or focus on narrow procedural problems, have virtually no possibility of nullify the outcome of elections , and the judges have already ruled out several prosecutions due to insufficient evidence. In the absence of a transparent legal avenue, Trump has pledged to spread viral lies about voter fraud on social media, which has led some of his aides to distrust the electoral process.
No, Dominion voting machines caused widespread voting disorders (New York Times)
The President Back Tweeted Badly (BuzzFeed)
Publications forge links between election generation corporations and Democrats (Associated Press)
I’m a last-minute news reporter in Forbes. Previously, I covered local news for the Boston Guardian and graduated from Tufts University in 2019.
I’m a last-minute news reporter at Forbes. Before, I was covering local news for the Boston Guardian and graduating from Tufts University in 2019. You can contact me jwalsh@forbes. com.