Trump falsely and predictably claims he already won the 2020 election
President Donald Trump prematurely claimed victory in the 2020 election early Wednesday morning, telling a dwell TV viewers that he’d already won — whereas additionally threatening to take authorized motion in opposition to votes which have but to be counted, despite the fact that many states are persevering with to course of reputable mail-in ballots.
“Frankly, we did win this election,” Trump stated, whereas additionally suggesting he would take authorized motion to maintain additional ballots from being counted.
Initially, Trump stopped wanting declaring a win, as an alternative specializing in particular person states the place he’s achieved properly. Even there, nonetheless, he seems to have lied about a few of the particulars — prompting NBC News to chop him off and fact-check him in actual time:
NBC News cuts off Trump. Savannah Guthrie: “We’ve got to dip in here because there’ve been several statements that are just frankly not true.” pic.twitter.com/4cUCqqMRR8
— Brent Baker (@BrentHBaker) November 4, 2020
At one level earlier in the speech, Trump stated he needed to curtail voting, and stated he’d go to the Supreme Court, although it was unclear what for. “We’ll be going to the US Supreme Court; we want all voting to stop, we don’t want them to find any ballots at 4 o’clock in the morning and add them to the list,” he stated, falsely suggesting that these remaining ballots are in some way unlawful.
But close to the finish of his speech, Trump falsely declared a win in the presidential race. He referred to as it a “fraud on the American public” and “an embarrassment to our country” that he hasn’t been capable of rejoice that win but.
While CNN didn’t truth examine Trump throughout his speech, it did name him out after the airing, clearly stating that he has not but won and that states haven’t licensed outcomes but. That form of clear language is in some methods a step past what we noticed from Twitter and Facebook, which put labels (and in the case of Twitter, sharing restrictions) on a deceptive tweet from Trump late on Tuesday night. After the speech, nonetheless, Facebook put a generic warning about vote counts at the high of Facebook and Instagram feeds:
Once President Trump started making untimely claims of victory, we began working notifications on Facebook and Instagram that votes are nonetheless being counted and a winner isn’t projected. We’re additionally robotically making use of labels to each candidates’ posts with this data. pic.twitter.com/tuGGLJkwcy
— Facebook Newsroom (@fbnewsroom) November 4, 2020