President Donald Trump had yet another all-caps Twitter meltdown on Thursday when he cited a bogus report from One America News that falsely claimed a computer program deliberately deleted votes for the president.
In the tweet, the president promoted a conspiracy theory about Dominion Voting Systems switching Trump votes to Biden votes, which the president says has cost him the 2020 election.
"REPORT: DOMINION DELETED 2.7 MILLION TRUMP VOTES NATIONWIDE," the president wrote. "DATA ANALYSIS FINDS 221,000 PENNSYLVANIA VOTES SWITCHED FROM PRESIDENT TRUMP TO BIDEN. 941,000 TRUMP VOTES DELETED. STATES USING DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS SWITCHED 435,000 VOTES FROM TRUMP TO BIDEN."
The New York Times has already examined the claim about Dominion and has found it to be false, however.
"The Dominion software was used in only two of the five counties that had problems in Michigan and Georgia, and in every instance there was a detailed explanation for what had happened," the Times found. "In all of the cases, software did not affect the vote counts."
The president's false Twitter rant drew shocked reactions, including from CNN's Jake Tapper, who described the tweet as "lunacy."
Check out some more reactions below.
Lunacy. https://t.co/0iLIMSrS3e— Jake Tapper (@Jake Tapper)1605199462.0
YOU 👏🏽 ARE 👏🏽 A 👏🏽 LU 👏🏽 NA 👏🏽 TIC. https://t.co/XEecaEr4EH— G O L D I E. (@G O L D I E.)1605200875.0
if you believe this bullshit i have a 1000x match offer for you that you will not believe https://t.co/M2JxwjZ2dQ— Sonny Bunch (@Sonny Bunch)1605199642.0
Come on @Twitter @jack Pull the plug already. https://t.co/DxOGj1s499— Jennifer Hayden (@Jennifer Hayden)1605199403.0
LITERALLY NO WORD OF THIS TRUE LOSER https://t.co/LlxfnNB2AM— Dr (damn right) Reza Aslan (@Dr (damn right) Reza Aslan)1605199313.0
It will never cease to amaze me that we have just gotten used to the idea that the President of the United States t… https://t.co/PXvMezdfJT— Tom Nichols (@Tom Nichols)1605199195.0
Judge: Your evidence? Lawyer: SCREAMS IN ALL CAPS Judge: Your source? Lawyer: OANN {gavel} Judge: Case dismiss… https://t.co/TsfJMplnOg— Kyle Clark (@Kyle Clark)1605199145.0
Hey @GOP come get your party leader, he's rage tweeting from the residence for a seventh straight day. https://t.co/TT9QtGVrJG— Max Burns (@Max Burns)1605199884.0
If this were coming from a Russian propaganda account, Twitter would remove it, not simply label it “disputed” https://t.co/9TaNP0phBT— Mike McIntire (@Mike McIntire)1605200200.0
Seriously... Twitter must suspend Trump, this is getting crazy. https://t.co/wfFdnjBCjf— Christopher Bouzy (@Christopher Bouzy)1605199011.0
This has been refuted: https://t.co/YMnB0sKnRD https://t.co/23RJW7wCND— Steve Herman (@Steve Herman)1605198995.0
Prove it in court. Stop tweeting about it and undermining democracy. And if it’s unsubstantiated, admit you’re wron… https://t.co/Tkp0knKrnT— Domenico Montanaro (@Domenico Montanaro)1605198989.0
This idiot will literally believe anything. If you told him that Democrat City Official were sticking Trump ballo… https://t.co/a0AP6rk6tB— Ben Yelin (@Ben Yelin)1605199096.0
This is getting ridiculous "No, Dominion voting machines did not cause widespread problems":… https://t.co/6W0zgMyLcq— Ryan Saavedra (@Ryan Saavedra)1605201144.0
