Trump shared more than 330 conspiracy posts on social network Truth from March to September: Report
Donald TrumpHis penchant for paranoid plots is not exactly a deep secret. But from March to September this year, the former president shared such theories on his social network Truth Social, at a rate of nearly two posts per day.
That statistic is one of the surprising things in the a new one New York Times review Trump’s Truth Social account, which collected and analyzed 5,641 of Trump’s posts over six months. Of those posts, at least 330 described “a false, secret plot against Mr. Trump or the American people” and blamed a specific individual or organization. time establish. An additional 388 posts included conspiratorial slogans or images, such as acronyms associated with QAnon.
Some of Trump’s favorite conspiracies aren’t particularly imaginative, considering these: He posted 43 times about George Soros, Billionaire philanthropist and longtime champion of right-wing conspiracists around the world.
But the former president also amplified false narratives and far-right fantasies aimed directly at undermining voters’ trust in the federal government and, importantly, in the electoral process. The Republican Party already has it lay the foundation to challenge next week’s election results in several swing states, and a new CNN poll found that most voters believe that Trump will not concede if he loses to the Vice President Kamala Harris.
His recent Truth Social activity includes 25 baseless posts about “rigging” the 2020 election and 22 baseless posts about a shadowy “deep state” within the federal government that Trump promised bankruptcy. Since March, he has made or shared at least 268 posts baselessly accusing his opponents of manipulating the 2024 election, including by importing immigrants undocumented or fabricated cases against him.
“I, along with many Lawyers and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely,” Trump posted on October 25, “because I know better than most people about the widespread fraud and deceit that has been perpetrated by the Trump administration. The Democratic Party in the 2020 Presidential Election.”
the time The analysis also found that Trump frequently retweeted content from anonymous accounts that often posted offensive and misleading posts, including sexually charged comments about Harris as well as photos and manipulated videos. In August, Trump retweeted a meme of himself—“Trump is 100% innocent,” it read—from an account that often compiled false election conspiracies, including claims that police had arrested keep Republican voters or close early voting locations in Republican areas.
Trump has nearly 8 million followers on Truth Social, where he posts dozens of times a day. On Tuesday, the former president used the venue to rally Pennsylvania voters… and to cheer law enforcement officers that, He claim, they are patrolling the state for “VOTER FRAUD!”
