Trump’s dangerous lies about voting by mail

He’s just trying to discredit the results of the upcoming election. The amount of fraud in mail voting is extremely small.

Trump is lying about voter fraud. Mail-in balloting is very secure with robust paper trails and < 0.0001% fraud. https://t.co/muFURw9lXQ … and Twitter’s rules explicitly allow lies like these about “rigged” elections to go viral without fact-checking https://t.co/bsGbsoKv9l https://t.co/onbHJYwO5l
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) July 26, 2020

It’s Paterson, moron. I was born there.

Agree with @bpmehlman: This is a great @washingtonpost map. Note that the traditional swing states are relatively or very mail-voting friendly.
(Texas, which has — for now, at least — become a swing state, is not.) https://t.co/w7HhDYOiYI
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) July 24, 2020

This is how Republicans think they will win in November. https://t.co/Ni7KNEn7G3 pic.twitter.com/fJMS2QfzQf
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) July 24, 2020

States ARE passing vote by mail rules and public does support. All Trump is doing is making R's less likely to use it. THUNK! https://t.co/9BSyVvG2Ny
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) July 21, 2020

One divide that stands out to me from latest ABC/WaPo poll: "Would you prefer to vote…by mail or in person?"

College+ whites: 51%-47% mail
Non-college whites: 66%-31% in person
Black: 60%-36% in person
Hispanic: 60%-37% in person
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) July 21, 2020

We're down to 9 states (CT, IN, KY, LA, MS, NY, SC, TX, WV) that are not allowing everyone to vote absentee in the fall. https://t.co/pJnKKxCTgD
— Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot) July 20, 2020

The evidence shows voting by mail is rarely subject to fraud, does not give an advantage to one political party over another https://t.co/Wr66CmRXDL
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 19, 2020

Whether postage will be required for absentee ballots and who pays for it has become a subject of lawsuits and statehouse political brawls. By @jcarrsmyth. https://t.co/90Eju6PUFJ
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 18, 2020

Top Republicans are urging President Trump to change his tune on mail-in voting or risk an ugly November https://t.co/tRlRP4991l pic.twitter.com/jmBE3WWVPX
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 17, 2020

Voting by mail shouldn't be a partisan issue––especially during a pandemic. Everybody should be able to request an absentee ballot, and make their voice heard in every election. https://t.co/enlhkichz3
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) July 13, 2020

Yikes — just finished a statewide survey in a swing state. The quarter of the voters who plan to vote by mail or absentee break 15% Trump/75% Biden on the Pres. ballot. Republicans are skeptical about voting by mail, and that's a problem up and down ballot.
— Glen Bolger (@posglen) July 13, 2020

New evidence in CBS battleground traker poll that suggests Trump’s anti-mail-in voting stance is driving his own voters away from voting by mail, giving Biden an edge

Wrote about this phenomenon a few weeks ago: https://t.co/3LzP5ULTkp pic.twitter.com/zbGTWYfCVg
— Emily Larsen (@emilyelarsen) July 12, 2020

Facts First: President Trump is inventing a voting distinction where none exists, and also peddling baseless claims of rigged elections and fraudulent ballots. https://t.co/2iyv4qeza6
— CNN (@CNN) July 10, 2020

Fact-checked already in the Trump claims database. Also, it's Paterson –> https://t.co/86Rwu8pyhQ https://t.co/PLn9xlTPbG
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) July 26, 2020

Covers: Willin’

“Willin'” is a Little Feat song written by Lowell George and released first in 1971. The cover I know best is by Linda Ronstadt from 1974.

https://youtu.be/5k8aatLUVsI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fTPQ0fVeN8

QAnon update 07/26/20

Even Fox is promoting it now.

Fox News' @JesseBWatters has some high words of praise for QAnon — which has been responsible for two murders, two child abductions, one terrorist incident, one church vandalism, one restaurant arson…etc…. pic.twitter.com/n4MiMahhpi
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) July 26, 2020

THREAD: How big is the QAnon on Facebook? It's big, very very big.
Twitter and TikTok limited QAnon content on their platforms this week. But Facebook's the main platform for the movement's hundreds of thousands of activists and influencers. Let's have a closer look at its reach pic.twitter.com/9IKZYwDNfA
— Shayan Sardarizadeh (@Shayan86) July 24, 2020

Just days after Twitter banned nearly 7,000 QAnon-related accounts, TikTok bans hashtags attached to the conspiracy theory https://t.co/XrHOliY4HZ pic.twitter.com/WNwFK82mHV
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) July 24, 2020

Donald Trump on OAN: "@OANN is Great News, not Fake News"
"whenever possible, I turn to @OANN"
"Thank you to @OANN One America News for your fair coverage and brilliant reporting." https://t.co/faD33y3SRL
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) July 24, 2020

Using a verified Twitter account with more than 230,000 followers and a hugely popular podcast, Tommy Gelati has whipped up QAnon conspiracy theory mobs against celebrities like Chrissy Teigen and companies like online furniture store Wayfairhttps://t.co/JKwnb5XUFa
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 24, 2020

Top Trump ally @RichardGrenell is getting deep into QAnon this week — blaming @chrissyteigen for the QAnon hordes harassing her and retweeting QAnon promoter Jordan Sather, who urges his fans to consume a substance the FDA says is the equivalent of drinking bleach. pic.twitter.com/fyorfvIJcq
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) July 22, 2020

A Twitter crackdown won’t stop QAnon. The conspiracy theory has already made the jump to the real world — seeping into American life and the Republican Party, inspiring violence and destroying lives along the way. https://t.co/btQ32HxaVD
— Will Sommer (@willsommer) July 22, 2020

Twitter says it will crack down on accounts and content related to QAnon, the far-right U.S. conspiracy theory popular among supporters of President Trump. The company will ban accounts associated with QAnon content and block sharing of associated URLs. https://t.co/lCRksfCWLo
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 22, 2020

This is a big deal. Designating QAnon as "coordinated harmful activity" strikes me as a smart, right decision https://t.co/QGrYVy2NpD
— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) July 22, 2020

BREAKING: Twitter says it has begun taking sweeping actions to limit the reach of QAnon content and banned many of the conspiracy theory's followers due to ongoing problems with harassment and the dissemination of misinformation. https://t.co/NwT9bGWkfx
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 22, 2020

Covers: She Came In Through the Bathroom Window

The Beatles released “She Came In Through the Bathroom Window” on Abbey Road in 1969. It’s a Paul McCartney song with the kind of wordplay usually associated with John Lennon. There are great lines like “She could steal but she could not rob”. She also worked in the improbable total of 15 clubs a day which McCartney sings as if it was not remarkable or implausible. There was soon a popular cover by Joe Cocker.

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Covers: Twisted

I am posting about “Twisted” because of the death of Annie Ross, who wrote the lyrics and sang it. I know it best from the cover by Joni Mitchell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TmUmrIoMi8

The original instrumental version

The latest Trump lies (7/20/20)

Watch: @BrianStelter dissects Trump's "favorite coronavirus lie," which is that "the rise in cases is all due to the rise in testing." He shows links between right-wing rhetoric and the president's testing obsession pic.twitter.com/li5szRjyWQ
— Reliable Sources (@ReliableSources) July 20, 2020

During a meandering and occasionally hostile interview with Fox News, President Trump made a very bold claim: that the US has the lowest mortality rate from Covid-19 anywhere in the world.

But his claim is not true — not even close. https://t.co/bmp6I7aAPf
— CNN (@CNN) July 20, 2020

Trump said on his NC "tele-rally" that Gov. Cooper told him they could have only 10 people in the arena at the RNC.

Cooper spokes says Cooper never said that. Says Cooper asked for a plan to keep people safe, Trump demanded a guarantee of no requirements for distancing or masks.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 20, 2020

Trump’s incessant dishonesty during interviews, rallies and other events is often convered in passing or not at all. Today, WaPo and the NYT treated it as the main story: pic.twitter.com/NgeJgsfdkc
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 20, 2020

Trump told his Wisconsin "tele-rally" that, in Iraq, "We're down to only 2,000 soldiers." It's about 5,000.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 19, 2020

President Donald Trump is clinging to the false notion that the coronavirus will just “disappear.” That's the finding of an #APFactCheck. https://t.co/xZaR0n9Xay
— AP Fact Check (@APFactCheck) July 19, 2020

He’s lying. Say it!

On @FoxNewsSunday, @realDonaldTrump claimed, “I got soldiers the biggest pay raises in the history of our military.” This false – by a mile. As I document in my book, he has frequently made false statements about military pay. There were bigger raises under both Bush and Obama. pic.twitter.com/Mo64eXsT8K
— jonkarl (@jonkarl) July 19, 2020

Last interview thought: the most irritating thing about how Trump's lying has mostly gone unchallenged by even non-sycophant interviewers is that he tells the same lies over and over. He is uncommonly easy to prepare for. And yet.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 19, 2020

Trump told his Michigan "tele-rally" tonight that he was named Michigan's Man of the Year 10 years ago, though he has very obviously never been named Michigan's Man of the Year.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 19, 2020

He’s told this lie over and over.

Chris Wallace calls @realDonaldTrump on a blatant lie that Trump keeps repeating re @JoeBiden.
Will it stop the @POTUS from repeating it again?
Not a chance.
He believes if you tell a lie often enough people will believe it. https://t.co/bF0BZX9j6U
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) July 18, 2020

Trump is on a lying spree about Biden. Video fact check of some of the most egregious recent nonsense: pic.twitter.com/Kt1euXIqtI
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 18, 2020

Where Trump made the most false claims from early June to early July:

– 22 at Tulsa rally
– 22 at Hannity "town hall" in Wisconsin
– 14 in WSJ interview
– 14 in speech to Turning Point in Phoenix
– 12 in interview with Hannityhttps://t.co/i2MqVf2Vhf
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 18, 2020

Trump, a serial liar about the past: "In every age, there have always been those who seek to lie about the past in order to gain power in the present."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 4, 2020

Trump: "We signed a bill. You play with our monuments, or our statues, you go to jail for 10 years."

He did not sign a bill. That penalty is in a 2003 law. Trump issued an executive order that referred explicitly to the existing law.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 2, 2020

Trump lies that Biden is saying he can't do the debates because of COVID. Biden, unlike Trump, has committed to the three official Commission debates, and he has repeatedly said he's eager to debate Trump even if it has to be via Zoom or another online tool.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 26, 2020

"They're delinquent with respect to their dues," Trump says of NATO members that don't meet NATO's 2%-of-GDP-on defense target, though that target is for countries' own spending, not dues to NATO, and though being short doesn't create debts on which anyone could be delinquent.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 24, 2020

I'm trying to check a Trump claim that they deterred a planned protest of "20- to 25,000 people" against a DC statue of Abraham Lincoln and a kneeling former slave (https://t.co/Q4lIFaYrez).

If anyone has anything to tell me other than "he's making this up," please let me know. pic.twitter.com/52sIZ7G46Z
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 20, 2020

Linkin Park is the latest artist to object to Trump using their music

Nobody wants to be associated with this hate 👇

"From the Rolling Stones to R.E.M. and Adele, the list of musicians fighting the president reads like an encyclopedia of rock and pop."#Resist https://t.co/T3J9mOwTcU
— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) August 25, 2020

Linkin Park did not and does not endorse Trump, nor authorize his organization to use any of our music. A cease and desist has been issued.
— LINKIN PARK (@linkinpark) July 19, 2020

Add Linkin Park to the list of bands and artists telling the Trump campaign to stop using their music https://t.co/ifWivW2ONM
— CNN (@CNN) July 20, 2020

That awkward moment when Linkin Park calls you out for copyright infringement 20 minutes after you post a campaign ad.

Imagine being busted for stealing LINKIN PARK songs. That’s like getting caught pirating Amazing Spider-Man 2 pic.twitter.com/cDEfUeQKFk
— Ryan Arey (@ryanarey) July 19, 2020

Trump tweeted a video with a remixed Linkin Park song in it. It trended on Twitter and then the copyright gods struck it down. They tried so hard and got so far, but in the end, it didn't even matter. https://t.co/CjCnxQyQrF
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) July 19, 2020

This is getting to be a pretty common occurrence: Trump posts disabled due to copyright infringement claims. This time? A campaign video using a Linkin Park song. Law and order prez… pic.twitter.com/nUxjPEnXY2
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 19, 2020

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— Tom Petty (@tompetty) June 21, 2020

Trump’s failure on the coronavirus

Our story raises questions about how POTUS is getting information about the coronavirus now/what hes seeking. Pence briefs him, but he also has inputs from a bunch of friends/inputs from Fox News etc. https://t.co/wQMUD7roME
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 19, 2020

Covers: Summertime Blues

“Summertime Blues” was a hit for three different recordings: The original by Eddie Cochran (1958), Blue Cheer (1968), and The Who (1970). The Who version features a great, concise guitar solo by Pete Townsend. Brian Setzer recorded it when he played Cochran in the film La Bamba. It’s the perfect distillation of teenage restlessness.