Trump seems to admit his electoral defeat and then recants



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“He won because the Elections were rigged. No VOTE WATCHERS or WATCHERS were allowed, the votes were counted by a privately owned Radical Left company, Dominion, with a bad reputation and deceptive equipment that could not even meet the requirements for Texas (That I won by a lot!), The Fake and Silent Media, and more! “Trump wrote on his Twitter.

The tweet was labeled by the social network as “this claim about election fraud is controversial.”

Trump accompanied his message with an excerpt from a speech on Fox News by conservative political commentator Jesse Waters, in which he unfoundedly asserted that Biden was successful by alleged fraud.

On November 7, the projections of the main media in the country gave Biden the winner in the presidential elections, but Trump has not yet admitted his defeat and has devoted himself to spreading conspiracy theories about an alleged electoral fraud without approving tests.

In a later tweet, the outgoing president insisted that he does not acknowledge his defeat: Biden “only won in the eyes of the Fake News Media. I do not recognize ANYTHING! We have a long way to go. This was a MORNING CHOICE!”

So far Trump has barely achieved the odd minor victory in the courts, where he has suffered setbacks such as the one on Friday in two Pennsylvania courts where six lawsuits filed by his election campaign were dismissed.

In his tweet, the outgoing president echoed a theory promoted on the Internet by the QAnon movement, which is spreading baseless allegations that there was an electoral fraud linked to the company Dominion Voting Systems, manufacturer of the machines for counting the votes. suffrages.

On Thursday Trump published another tweet mentioning the conspiracy theory that the company removed millions of votes in his favor, citing a link from the far-right site One America News Network.

The non-governmental organization Advance Democracy, which follows the cases of disinformation, has found since last November 5 that 1 in 7 messages on Twitter with the hashtag #Dominion originated from accounts that identify themselves with QAnon.

QAnon is an internet phenomenon promoting baseless theories, such as that the world is run by an organization of satanic pedophiles who, among other things, conspire to overthrow Trump or that the wildfires ravaging the American West were caused by activists. from Black Lives Matter (Black lives matter).

These conspiracy theories and allegations of voter fraud, which Trump himself is promoting, appear to be taking a toll on his own supporters.

On Saturday, thousands of supporters of the outgoing president marched in central Washington to protest alleged election fraud in a rally, which led to late-night altercations against Trump critics.



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