Trump team lies about the transition after the 2016 election

Trump lies about everything.

Trump team making false argument about his 2016 transition https://t.co/nEqpyI9ki9
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) November 23, 2020

"I was the GSA administrator under President Barack Obama. On the day after the presidential election in 2016, I ascertained that Donald Trump had won," writes Denise Turner Roth, describing the presidential transition process. | @CNNOpinion https://t.co/7huL1kz3Gw
— CNN (@CNN) November 19, 2020

“But Trump’s team largely ignored advice from Obama staffers, leaving briefing books unopened and ignoring special iPads loaded with materials. The lack of preparation left aides clueless even about how to work the overhead intercom in the West Wing” https://t.co/y1SunHEEax
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) November 22, 2020

Trumpsters are complaining about the Trump transition. Let's open the book by Governor Chris Christie, who headed Trump's transition in 2016-2017, to hear from him. Page 6 pic.twitter.com/Bc570hjZ4R
— David Frum (@davidfrum) November 21, 2020

The reality is, while Democrats expressed disappointment at the 2016 election results, most of the party's leadership in Congress, the White House and at the DNC congratulated Trump. They also pledged to work with his team to facilitate the transition. https://t.co/eG087mTBgn
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 15, 2020

Obama praised Bush for the cooperation in 2008 transition and pledged that same level of cooperation to whoever followed him

And that's exactly what the outgoing Obama team did in 2016. We prepared detailed materials and scheduled briefings

We also gave them a pandemic playbook https://t.co/nzAhcBnf3f
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) November 21, 2020

Michelle Obama implored Republicans today to acknowledge Joe Biden's electoral victory in a candid Instagram post that touched on her own experiences in the 2016 transitionhttps://t.co/Pi4j05fXl0
— POLITICO (@politico) November 16, 2020

Trump is meeting with Michigan officials as he is trying to sabotage the election

Disgraceful. Trump is so far behind in electoral votes, he would have to overturn valid results in several states. He needs to concede now for the good of the country.

JUST IN: In an extraordinary move, Pres. Trump is expected to meet with Michigan's top state lawmakers on Friday at the White House, sources tell @ABC News, amid repeated and unsuccessful attempts to alter the election outcome in the state. https://t.co/scmDveEfGN pic.twitter.com/qpIawOBmZl
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 19, 2020

History has come for Speaker Chatfield and Senator Shirkey, who have been summoned to the White House, ahead of Monday’s State Board of Canvassers' meeting meant to certify Michigan’s results.

These two men will soon have to choose between our democracy, and fealty to one man.
— Rep. Elissa Slotkin (@RepSlotkin) November 19, 2020

The Wayne county board of canvassers certified the results of the election in 2016 unanimously despite a far higher discrepancy rate than this year – because small discrepancies between the number of voters checked in and those who cast ballots is NORMAL.
— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) November 19, 2020

Facebook enables Trump and his cult to spread lies

Social media has been lenient on Trump while he has been president. I hope (but don’t expect) they don’t let him spread lies after he is out of office and just another person.

Facebook is giant problem for democracy. They have massive reach, a huge Right Wing bias, spread disinformation like wildfire, and most the policy decisions are made by GOP operatives whose primary goal is not avoid angering their Republican friends. https://t.co/IUSBcM2TC0
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) November 11, 2020

This is the #2 top post on all of Facebook over the last 24 hours (when ranked by engagement), per @crowdtangle. Hard to see how Facebook's label really helps. pic.twitter.com/VjJpEnXcpD
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) November 19, 2020

Facebook Knows That Adding Labels To Trump’s False Claims Does Little To Stop Their Spread https://t.co/sKTymfLlSj
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) November 17, 2020

READ THIS

Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting that Steve Bannon has not violated enough policies to be suspended from Facebook.

The ex-Trump adviser suggested in a now-removed video that FBI Director Wray and Dr. Anthony Fauci should be beheaded https://t.co/AejWikAffO
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) November 12, 2020

This is a choice. https://t.co/JwyJlA6GOE
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) November 11, 2020

Facebook is absolutely teeming with right-wing misinformation right now. These are all among the 10 most-engaged URLs on the platform over the last 24 hours (per @NewsWhip data) pic.twitter.com/WlTR10fRBE
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) November 10, 2020

Facebook made Bannon and Breitbart, and it’s clear that it will enable the next Bannon, the next Breitbart, and the next Trump. https://t.co/E4S4yUcl16
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) November 7, 2020

Facebook bans "STOP THE STEAL" group Trump allies were using to organize protests against vote counting https://t.co/6I2U4nWS4n
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 5, 2020

A massive "Stop the Count" Facebook group has ties to Republican operatives https://t.co/rlbeLGqri1
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) November 5, 2020

From me and @oneunderscore__:

Protestors causing chaos at a Detroit vote counting room organized in a private Facebook “ReOpen” group, formed early this year to protest Covid19 lockdown measures, but repurposed for pro-gun, anti-BLM, and other causes. https://t.co/ZyTiulAOVR
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) November 4, 2020

Reminded right now at how dominant Trump's FB page was as its own publisher outside the media the past three months.
Just dwarfed NYT, NBC News, Biden, etc. in engagement and interactions.
A president as his own state media outlet (via social)
Here's @crowdtangle data. pic.twitter.com/f1bDcHnV5Z
— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) November 4, 2020

Per @crowdtangle, these are the Facebook news pages with the most interaction on Election Day so far. Fox News & Breitbart account for 38% share of voice. pic.twitter.com/keBII66pjB
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) November 3, 2020

Zuckerberg, over objections of staff, protests from outside groups, has clearly bet a lot on Trump winning and maintaining control over antitrust & other federal oversight for the next four years. He's made a big bet that may now come due. https://t.co/tDWBCi4RXZ
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) November 2, 2020

Some month-end data from Facebook: in October, the most-engaged link posts from U.S. pages (excluding some UNICEF posts that were boosted by FB) came from:

1. Franklin Graham
2. Donald J. Trump
3. Graham
4. Trump
5. Trump
6. Graham
7. Graham
8. Graham
9. Fox News
10. Graham
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) November 1, 2020

Some funny art from the Four Seasons fiasco

People have made creative art from Rudy Giuliani’s foolish appearance at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

Someone made a gag Lego Four Seasons Total Landscaping set pic.twitter.com/O75AGYHa8a
— Adam Rawnsley (@arawnsley) November 15, 2020

You can also buy this set to make the look complete pic.twitter.com/EzayMaZoxd
— Deven Nunez 'voter fraud van' Cow (@EmmReef) November 15, 2020

I don't know who did this but they deserve all the likes. pic.twitter.com/WGDbHxHgX2
— Jared Lipof (@jaredlipof) November 14, 2020

Only 17% of Republicans think Trump should concede right away

This is undermining our elections. Biden won. The election is over. Trump should concede now.

Part of the problem is Trump always said that the only way he could lose was if the election was rigged. I always knew Biden could lose. The Trump cult never understood that he could lose.

46% of registered voters think Trump should concede to Biden “right away.”
12% believe he should refuse to concede “no matter what.” https://t.co/Mwx9CqRON8
— POLITICO (@politico) November 17, 2020

😬😬https://t.co/bUn6krucA7 pic.twitter.com/EFWhpU3ciP
— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) November 19, 2020

More on fake voter fraud claims

A look at 5 false or misleading Trump team claims of election fraud. https://t.co/Icv4sl5Z11
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 14, 2020

Let me be 💯 clear:

Over 6M votes cast, there’s exactly 2 cases of criminal voter fraud in PA.

👉 Luzerne Republican voting for a dead mom 👵🏻💀🗳

👉 Chester Republican voting for a live democrat son. 👨🏻‍🦲👩🏻‍🦲🗳

10 days of every Republican frenetically searching: TWO CASES.
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) November 14, 2020

Hey @DanPatrick it’s me again. 🙄

You wanted voter fraud, so here’s a *new* one: Republican father voted, then returned “in sunglasses” to vote for his Democrat son in Chester County.

Two cases out of 6M+ votes in PA.

My dude, isn’t that $2M now? https://t.co/0MS4qB5mYT
— John Fetterman (@JohnFetterman) November 14, 2020

This is a full on public revolt by career prosecutors over Barr’s politicization of DOJ. Absolutely unprecedented. https://t.co/YqUgOmKgyk
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) November 13, 2020

Arizona’s post election audits have been completed. They confirm that no fraud has been found. Never had any doubt.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) November 12, 2020

Trump administration statement this evening, bold type in the original: "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised." https://t.co/gD7BI9Uzfn pic.twitter.com/xz6w5jTh9F
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 13, 2020

Post-election audits in Arizona find no evidence of systematic voter fraud https://t.co/EO53lKqo9K pic.twitter.com/wvPrr2DWXv
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 12, 2020

Wisconsin elections head says still no evidence of fraudhttps://t.co/SELpaFJUG8
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) November 12, 2020

One of the Trump campaign's witnesses who is claiming that her Sharpie vote for the president wasn't counted just testified that she came to that conclusion after she cast her vote from her talking to her family, other voters, some attorneys and from her "research online."
— Alan Feuer (@alanfeuer) November 12, 2020

Once again, Trump’s attorneys tell judges that they aren’t alleging fraud.

They are not willing to put their law licenses on the line by pushing Trump’s conspiracy theories and falsehoods.

Just another indicator that Trump is lying to his followers. https://t.co/4geMrzL89f
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) November 12, 2020

more crazy conspiracy theories –> https://t.co/kQUfsWJpln https://t.co/QoUbAhac6B
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 12, 2020

Fact Checker: Four viral videos falsely suggest "voter fraud" led to Biden’s victory https://t.co/OXbdisdZtA
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 12, 2020

Arizona’s GOP attorney general rejects Trump’s unfounded voter fraud claims: "There is no evidence" https://t.co/cAqeC04UQl
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 12, 2020

Fact check: President Trump wrongly claimed a video that showed election workers collecting legally cast ballots in Los Angeles the day after the election showed evidence of fraud https://t.co/J96Pw2G6Cn
— CNN (@CNN) November 12, 2020

And yet Philadelphia is at the heart of GOP's voter fraud rhetoric, because, well, we all know why.

Stupid Democrats — can't even do fraud right! https://t.co/aCtdxOIyw2
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) November 11, 2020

Biden won the counties that contribute most to the GDP

In spite of what the Trump cult claims, the blue states subsidize the red states.

President-elect Joe Biden's support came from America's most economically productive counties.

Columnist @hiltzikm explains: https://t.co/GLVrQAUuRe
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) November 12, 2020

Joe Biden won just 477 of America’s 3,141 counties — but those counties account for an incredible 70% of the nation’s GDP.

By contrast, Clinton won counties that add up to 64% of GDP, Gore in 2000 won 54%. https://t.co/enwHlhxU22
— Reid Wilson (@PoliticsReid) November 11, 2020

Biden-voting counties equal 70% of America's economy. What does this mean for the nation's political-economic divide? https://t.co/UqcR6QixP2 via @BrookingsInst
— Thomas Edsall (@Edsall) November 10, 2020

Likewise in @BrookingsMetro study, seats held by House Ds now produce 50% more GDP on average than seats held by House Rs. How wide could that gap get if Rs further retreat in suburbs of TX, IN, NC, NE, OH (?) PA (?) etc @MarkMuro1 ? https://t.co/yIy8nErS8G https://t.co/ggs9stnMEF
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 11, 2020

He won almost all of the largest counties, too:

Biden beat Trump in the two largest counties the president carried last time: Maricopa (Phoenix) and Tarrant (Fort Worth).

When all the votes are counted, Suffolk County, on Long Island, may be the only one of the 50 largest counties that Trump won https://t.co/Bust0tuAEZ
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) November 12, 2020

White House likely to fire official who posted accurate election information

He didn’t go along with Trump’s lies so he will be canned.

White House appears ready to fire a top U.S. official for posting information intended to reassure voters — but debunked the false narrative advanced by the president. Orwellian. https://t.co/gc5kWIR9Aw pic.twitter.com/z18QT1XZyk
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 12, 2020

Deceptive anti-Biden video

It was altered. More lies. Sad!

From @donie: the latest in the long series of videos dishonestly altered to make Biden look confused was viewed more than 1 million times on Twitter. https://t.co/PDHkWciCRi
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 2, 2020

That video people are sharing of Biden saying “Hello Minnesota” in front of a sign saying Tampa is doctored.

He was in Minnesota. The sign has been altered to say Tampa.

See 28:30 here:https://t.co/ZqK3dV2tkV
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 1, 2020

Biden picture without a mask was from 2019

Another lie

There’s a reason Joe Biden was on a plane without a mask in a photo that’s circulating online: It was taken in 2019. Some social media users suggested the lack of a mask was hypocritical. But, as @AmandaSeitz reports, the photo predates the pandemic. https://t.co/m9dx8DLGQ4
— AP Fact Check (@APFactCheck) November 2, 2020

A combined 27K RTs on photo from 2019 before there was a pandemic. These people tweet in all caps about fake news. pic.twitter.com/n8J9icJkyc
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) November 2, 2020