Wall Street Journal hit for publishing letter from Trump with litany of election fraud allegations
Top line
Former President Donald Trump continued to falsely insist that the 2020 presidential election he lost to President Joe Biden “was rigged,” and on Wednesday he pleaded his case in a form resolutely plebeian for a former president – a letter to the editor published by the the Wall Street newspaper complain about an editorial – and some reporters questioned the publication’s decision to give Trump a platform for his dangerous claims.
The Wall Street Journal published a letter to the editor of former President Donald Trump … [+]
Getty Images
Highlights
In response to a piece of the WSJThe editorial board of which said that a mail-in ballot dispute had no bearing on whether or not Biden won Pennsylvania, Trump wrote: “Well, in fact, the election did. been rigged, which unfortunately you still haven’t understood. ”
Trump goes on to list nearly two dozen allegations of alleged fraud in the state that have turned out to be false, for example insisting that “hundreds of thousands of votes were illegally counted in secret” as observers Republicans polls were “rejected” from voting sites, a request that was rejected in every legal challenge The Republicans brought.
The WSJ provided no warning about the veracity of Trump’s accusations, a move that has angered prominent journalists.
Key context
Trump was banned from most social media platforms after his tweets claiming voter fraud helped fuel the attack on the United States Capitol. The former president announced last week his intention to create his own social network.
Chief critic
Amanda Carpenter, director of the Republicans for the right to vote, tweeted, “The WSJ publishes trash opinion of Trump spewing election lies, but calls it a ‘letter to the editor’ to avoid taking responsibility …. Take responsibility WSJ !!!”
Further reading
Trump campaign says elections in deep blue states were rigged (they weren’t) (Forbes)
‘No evidence’ of electoral fraud in battlefield states, statistical analysis reveals as Trump continues to misrepresent (Forbes)
Pennsylvania election audit gets off to a wild start as GOP assigns personal details to every voter in state (Forbes)
Comments are closed.