Trump campaign’s fake newspaper page

They lie about everything

It was supposed to illustrate why you can’t trust the media. But it really showed why you can’t trust anything coming out of Trump’s team. https://t.co/NVuLFuemrS
— Slate (@Slate) November 11, 2020

For younger readers who have been confused by the term “fake news…” this deleted tweet from a Trump campaign spokesman showing a doctored newspaper front page is a textbook example of actual “fake news.” The newspaper corrects the record below… pic.twitter.com/YutiE3sqmA
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) November 8, 2020

Can’t think of a more vivid illustration of the consequences of cloaking yourself in lies and misinformation. https://t.co/jGt9S0oKGW
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) November 8, 2020

Uhh, the Trump campaign plastered its headquarters with a fake newspaper front page that never existed, then its communications director tweeted out the image. (H/t to @KFILE) pic.twitter.com/1OmhOCEPbh
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 8, 2020

The Trump cult believes his lies about the election

70-80 percent of Republicans say in surveys that they don't believe Joe Biden legitimately won the election.

A question that's been nagging at me for a couple weeks: How many of them really mean it? https://t.co/c7C23xl5Oa
— Emily Badger (@emilymbadger) November 30, 2020

A grim new poll suggests that Trump's lies about the election are working with his base: 86 percent of Trump voters say Biden didn't legitimately win. https://t.co/Hp0TC3hVVl
— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 11, 2020

Our latest YouGov/The Economist poll has a host of troubling findings about public confidence in the election.

Most shocking is that 86% of Trump voters say that Biden "did not legitimately win the election." 73% say that we'll "never know the real outcome of this election."
— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) November 11, 2020

Trump’s Crazy and Confoundingly Successful Conspiracy Theory https://t.co/mWF040fIQn via @politico
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 13, 2020

There was no widespread voter fraud

Trump and his cult are lying. The New York TImes investigation is very thorough.

🚨🚨🚨——> @nytimes reporters called election officials in almost every state:
They all said there was no evidence of voter fraud or other irregularities that affected the outcome of the presidential race.
By @NYTnickc @reidepstein @jimrutenberg https://t.co/7zbMHM6mYy
— Cliff Levy (@cliffordlevy) November 11, 2020

ICYMI, here's the op-ed by Todd Bice, a Republican and one of the most respected lawyers in Nevada who knows a little bit about election law:

"The current cries of voter fraud are the fraud"https://t.co/8BDNR6NdBc
— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) November 10, 2020

A team of 28 international observers from the Organization of American States, invited by the Trump administration, issued a preliminary report in which it praised last week’s U.S. elections while criticizing baseless allegations of systematic fraud.https://t.co/stflqLeL0y
— Axios (@axios) November 10, 2020

An #APFactCheck finds President Trump is spreading false claims about voter fraud and Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. https://t.co/MhocOHAq8P
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 11, 2020

.⁦@thekoreanvegan⁩ and I drop the hammer.

No Self-Respecting Lawyer Should Touch Trump’s Election-Fraud Claims – The Atlantic https://t.co/w6rH1eRW0V
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) November 11, 2020

A Republican city commissioner in Philadelphia says that he has not seen any evidence of widespread fraud: "I have seen the most fantastical things on social media, making completely ridiculous allegations that have no basis in fact at all" https://t.co/W4OychxSiA
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 11, 2020

It looks like Republicans might have found one possible case of fraud — one ballot — in Nevada and even that remains unproven.

By comparison, Biden leads Trump by more than 36,000 votes in the state and nearly 5 million nationally. https://t.co/TGVEyz9FhN
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) November 11, 2020

I wrote a piece for The Washington Post on the way misinformation about the election results is being spread across social media under the guise of "statistical analysis."https://t.co/5QcHBtyKxZ
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) November 11, 2020

Election officials in red and blue states cite smooth election contrary to President Trump's baseless claims of fraud. https://t.co/x62tnWlq27
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 11, 2020

Note this on this #VeteransDay: GOP List of Alleged Voter Fraud in Nevada Contains Hundreds of Military Addresses https://t.co/dlMwxzOCDj
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) November 11, 2020

Trump lawyers suffer embarrassing rebukes from judges over voter fraud claims https://t.co/s5MFhDPYhr
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) November 11, 2020

So far @realDonaldTrump has 16 losses and 0 wins in court because courts require evidence. You can’t just make stuff up & Trump’s lawyers are not going to risk being disbarred for lying. And higher courts won’t help @POTUS because once the judge makes findings of fact, it’s over. https://t.co/6aAqQOCdsU
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) November 11, 2020

"When it comes to claims about mass voter fraud, let's be clear. Trump supporters, you're being lied to."

—@JohnAvlon pic.twitter.com/3mCbnTpuPO
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 11, 2020

BREAKING: Trump lawsuit affidavits don't show proof of widespread fraud in Michigan https://t.co/SSGncRwOTL
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) November 11, 2020

The Republican National Committee, which has made a decision to go Trump-level dishonest, has delivered one of the most laughable fraud arguments of the week: https://t.co/KTuogtrhRW
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 11, 2020

In poll watcher affidavits, Trump campaign offers no evidence of fraud in Detroit ballot-counting https://t.co/jIZ0c2MOGv
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 12, 2020

This is EXACTLY what is happening. The Trump campaign tried to suppress the Black vote and was unsuccessful. Now they want to discount their votes by claiming they were cast fraudulently. https://t.co/qzzutDZKnr
— Midwin Charles (@MidwinCharles) November 12, 2020

Detroit lawyers say fraud allegations based on 'extraordinary failure to understand how elections function' https://t.co/oGAmt30rJY pic.twitter.com/rkCopuzWh8
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) November 12, 2020

Election officials in every swing state say there's no evidence of voter fraud https://t.co/TMWg43F8cD
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) November 12, 2020

Fraudulent claims on dead voters

CNN just spoke with yet another Georgia voter Trump and Tucker Carlson falsely accused of fraudulently casting their ballot under the name of a dead person. More to come. pic.twitter.com/v7LpjGWDVx
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 18, 2020

CNN dug into 50 names that the Trump folks are pointing to as evidence of dead people voting in Michigan.

The upshot: 37 were dead and didn’t vote. 5 are alive and did vote. 8 are alive but didn’t vote. ⁦@CNN⁩ https://t.co/CjtjwIxSkC
— Jessica Silver-Greenberg 🕵🏻‍♀️ (@jbsgreenberg) November 11, 2020

and there’s this:

Republican Philadelphia City Commissioner says they looked into a list claiming dead people voted. "Between everything else that we're doing, we looked it up — each one of them to see what their vote history was. Not a single one voted in Philadelphia after they died."
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 11, 2020

Fact check: Evidence undermines Trump campaign's claims of dead people voting in Georgia https://t.co/kEDTO4NWEx pic.twitter.com/G5bT1jghAk
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 13, 2020

The Trump administration itself disputes this. https://t.co/N0u0FUonoB https://t.co/jOMFHc1ryS pic.twitter.com/LRwJYaYy6r
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) November 11, 2020

This happens over and over. Republicans say they've found dead voters. It goes viral. Someone looks into it. They're either alive, or the dead person didn't vote. But the debunking never goes viral. Rinse, repeat, and more and more people continue to believe blatant lies. https://t.co/fJx90WZTP6
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) November 16, 2020

'Dead' people alleged to have voted in the Georgia election are actually alive. Linda Kessler is a registered voter with the same name as a former, dead one. Another is a widow registered as Mrs. James E. Blalock. The voter print out doesn't include 'Mrs.'https://t.co/8h5DtJ2JDT
— Brendan Keefe (@BrendanKeefe) November 13, 2020

Winning

Trump’s philosophy is based on winning. That means the other side has to lose. There’s no room for compromise. It’s a toxic philosophy for trying to get along in a multi-party country.

Now he and most of the Republican leaders won’t accept that he lost. It’s fine that Biden thinks he can work with them and he’s welcome to try it but he’s wrong. Republicans only care about winning and will not work with him. That’s why they violate norms over and over with things like the Barrett appointment. It was wrong but it was legal so they did it. They don’t care that it undermines public confidence in the Supreme Court.

Remember when McConnell said his goal was to make Obama a one-term president? Why should this be different? It won’t be. Anything Biden gets done will have to be by executive order. If there is a Supreme Court vacancy, I think McConnell won’t let him fill it.

Republicans don’t care what the public thinks and so far have not suffered from taking unpopular actions.

The public supported hearings on Garland. McConnell didn’t do it.

The public supported having witnesses for the Senate Trump impeachment trial. McConnell didn’t have them.

The public thought the winner of the election should pick RBG’s replacement. Trump and McConnell filled the vacancy anyway.

McConnell won’t even hold hearings on the large volume of bills passed by the House. Why would that change now just because Biden is president.

I admire Biden’s optimism but he’ll learn the hard way. He can’t be president of all of the people when a large minority won’t accept that he is the president.

The Trump administration has no respect for the Hatch Act

There’s no line between the campaign and the administration.

Ivanka Trump

Jared Kushner

Kayleigh McEnany

Larry Kudlow

Marc Short

Dan Brouliette

Andrew Giuliani

These former Trump admin officials (and more!) still need to face consequences for apparent violations of the Hatch Acthttps://t.co/8bywJPy1SB
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) February 19, 2021

Donald Trump's ambassador to Denmark, Carla Sands, violated the Hatch Act when she urged Americans to donate to Trump's campaign using her official Twitter account.

Now, President Biden must decide what to do about it. https://t.co/T9aOY7tdGW
— POLITICO (@politico) February 19, 2021

We need a better way to explain the Hatch Act, so here: It prevents taxpayer-funded government workers from working as campaign operatives on your dime. Please message accordingly.
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) August 29, 2020

Hatch Act prohibits federal employees from engaging in political activity at work. It is an abuse of taxpayer funds to use public buildings for politics. It is illegal to invite subordinates to political events because it pressures them to support a particular candidate. https://t.co/LeeGPzfDLy
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) August 28, 2020

Trump tests limits as Cabinet members fan out to key stateshttps://t.co/R0graXVqmU
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) October 29, 2020

Kayleigh McEnany has suddenly been appearing from the Trump campaign HQ on TV as both a White House press secretary and a campaign senior adviser, encapsulating the ignoring of the Hatch Act and total blurring of lines in the administration https://t.co/JMZ2azIRvF
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 29, 2020

Ivanka Trump appears to have violated the Hatch Act a staggering 30 TIMES on Twitter alone since this was published two weeks ago.https://t.co/X7btvrQClE
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) October 28, 2020

BREAKING: Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue was just ordered to reimburse the government after violating the Hatch Act following a complaint by CREW https://t.co/mRVyqjNQQt
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) October 8, 2020

Trump and his team have made a mockery of our ethics laws and turned the federal government into his own partisan campaign arm. I have a new 22-page report on the lawlessness of the most corrupt administration in US history. Here’s what I found:https://t.co/Fbx6iwdayt
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) October 29, 2020

BREAKING: We just filed a complaint calling for the termination of Peter Navarro following his repeated violations of the Hatch Act https://t.co/J8YBAjshXl
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) October 5, 2020

So… let me get this straight … these Trumpists stole a quarter BILLION dollars from the CDC and other agencies that was meant for actually fighting the virus and are giving it to Caputo’s BUSINESS PARTNERS to make feel-good “corona yay!” celebrity ads? https://t.co/eD5x20osbt
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) September 26, 2020

To summarize this $300 million gov’t ad campaign:

—Conceived by Trump appointee.
—Featuring Trump-friendly celebrities.
—Reinforces Trump messaging.
—Paid for with diverted CDC funds, w/o CDC input.
—Subcontractor is business partner of Trump appointee. https://t.co/6on4C2258B
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) September 26, 2020

Democrats say the letter violates the law against using government resources to campaign. It’s just the latest example of President Trump using his office to boost his reelection hopes. https://t.co/uPznEoTZ2C
— ProPublica (@propublica) September 26, 2020

The Office of the Special Counsel has started investigating Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for potentially violating the Hatch Act, after she slammed Joe Biden in a Fox News interview and her agency promoted it through official channelshttps://t.co/kF7WLUkbvb
— POLITICO (@politico) September 21, 2020

Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf’s violation of the Hatch Act was one of many that occurred during the conventions. But his violation included a naturalization ceremony broadcasted without the participants’ consent, making it among one of the worst.https://t.co/iJt9xlfC2L
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) September 8, 2020

There were so many potential Hatch Act violations at the RNC that they are hard to count. Hatch Act violations are investigated and enforced by the Office of Special Counsel. @CongressmanRaja and I requested an investigation of this weeks events: pic.twitter.com/mdDjbSqYNq
— Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) August 28, 2020

It is a violation of federal law.

Every single Federal employee who helped set that up and or carry it out violated the Hatch Act.

If Trump directed them to do this, so did he. https://t.co/A1i04VCNZH
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) August 28, 2020

When I was in charge of the Hatch Act in the White House, I walked into the office of a senior staffer who loved the Grateful Dead.

They had an autographed an Obama campaign sign for him & he had hung it up.

I made him take it down: politics in the federal workplace are illegal https://t.co/ii7EWdjy8E
— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) August 28, 2020

Just two weeks ago, the #2 GOP Senator John Thune said anything done “on federal property would seem to be problematic.”

Such opposition went silent very quickly. https://t.co/Eh3TEmkmme
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 28, 2020

https://twitter.com/aaronblake/status/1299345841497550849?s=11

This isn’t theoretical or vague. Trump stole your tax dollars to put on a campaign event. Every staffer involved starting with @MarkMeadows should be prosecuted. It’s criminal. https://t.co/L0RE1MhzWS
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) August 28, 2020

President Trump plans to accept his party’s nomination for president from the White House on Thursday. It’s expected to be the last of several violations of the Hatch Act over the course of the RNC.https://t.co/yXlMhRtsYK
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 26, 2020

At least 13 Trump officials illegally campaigned while in office, federal investigation finds. https://t.co/OMNWpVJrih
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) November 9, 2021

I humbly suggest that the Hatch Act's reliance on the good faith of presidents and administration officials did not do much to bind Donald Trump. https://t.co/SVutjQwz6h
— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 9, 2021

Many career government employees, like me, took the Hatch Act very seriously. We didn't use taxpayer dollars to support a political party. Going undisciplined for multiple violations after being warned b/c the POTUS you worked for didn't care would have been unthinkable. https://t.co/onJLEaqX60
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) March 18, 2022

More endorsements for Biden

To be honest, I don’t think these influence voters much.

Biden has the support of more than 200 retired admirals and generals, including at least 22 four-stars. The latest to support him is Adm. Bill McRaven, former SOCOM commander.

Trump does not have the endorsement of a single four-star flag officer. https://t.co/TL82JJMV0j
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) October 20, 2020

Leading Scientists Urge Voters to Dump Trump:
Scientific journals and Nobel Prize winners – who are usually cautious about stepping into politics – cite unprecedented damage and incompetence in calls for a U.S. leadership change. via ⁦@sciam⁩ https://t.co/UlKyjPbMyf
— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) October 17, 2020

Striking https://t.co/d7lhw6qvaE
— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 16, 2020

From one of our most respected secretaries of defense. And he is not alone. Biden has 12x as many endorsements from former national security officials and military officers as Trump has.

Like I said in @PostOpinions: https://t.co/TL82JJMV0j https://t.co/FO3jCuybie
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) October 20, 2020

Trump’s drug card scam

It was just a ploy to get votes. I doubt it ever happens.

President Trump’s Medicare drug discount cards face uncertain path https://t.co/CPmizBMfbN
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 15, 2020

This is such a remarkable story on so many levels. Among other things, what would the possible legal justification be for spending $7.9 billion to send out drug discount cards with the president's name on them? https://t.co/eP5IohOPSy pic.twitter.com/zPre94Rf44
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) October 8, 2020

A blatant ploy to use the Medicare trust fund to pay for an election year boost for Trump in the form of a letter and drug discount cards. https://t.co/1mKwwCXtpj
— Sam Stein (@samstein) October 8, 2020

Health officials scramble to explain details of Trump’s $200 drug discount card https://t.co/iSv3Zbavu9
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 26, 2020

Trump is promising to send $200 drug discount cards to 33 million seniors, an election year bid aimed at saying he’s lowering sky high prescription drug costs for older Americanshttps://t.co/R8qVOIJ35t
— POLITICO (@politico) September 25, 2020

News: The WH & Phrma nearly agreed to a $150B deal

Then the WH came back w a bigger ask: they wanted cash cards mailed to seniors to help them pay for drugs

Phrma feared “Trump Cards” – and the specter of an in-kind contrib

Deal blew up

w @maggieNYT >https://t.co/SVMf1zQrsa
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) September 18, 2020

Great sign in Iowa

Billboard outside Des Moines airport where Trump holds Iowa rally tonight. pic.twitter.com/XHix45wzlw
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) October 14, 2020