Trump's flood of Truth Social rants dismissed as 'morning nonsense' by fact checker
President Donald Trump began his Monday with a series of short rants on Truth Social ahead of a scheduled White House meeting with European leaders. CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale responded by highlighting some of the most egregious falsehoods they contained.
The top false claim Trump repeated Monday was what he alleged Russian President Vladimir Putin told him — that no other country in the world uses mail-in voting.
“No, states don’t have to run elections how the president ‘tells’ them to. No, the U.S. isn’t ‘the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting.’ No, mail-in voting doesn’t make elections fraudulent,” Dale wrote on X, calling it a “Quick fact check of Trump’s morning nonsense.”
Trump’s assertion that no other countries use mail-in voting is something he continues to parrot from Putin. "False," Dale said. "Dozens of other countries use mail-in voting, as CNN and others have pointed out when Trump has made such claims before. These countries include Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Switzerland."
Trump also claimed that Democrats “cheat at levels never seen before.” Dale also dismissed this as “nonsense,” noting there is no basis for the claim and that the “quantity of ballot fraud” is “minuscule.”
Dale also called mail-in voting a “legitimate” way to cast a ballot.
Utah, which Dale singled out, is among the states where voters are automatically sent mail-in ballots, though it is now "phasing out" that policy. According to Dale, Utah has been “free of widespread fraud.”
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