Donald Trump has made an all-caps declaration on the elections tweeting and Facebooking “I WON THE ELECTION!”
It comes a week after Democratic candidate Joe Biden was declared the victor by left and right American news networks who have real time access to Electoral college data.
Twitter flagged Trump’s tweet with a warning which read: “Official sources called it differently”.
I WON THE ELECTION!
Posted by Donald J. Trump on Sunday, 15 November 2020
Facebook then directs readers to AP – Associated Press’ Fact Check website.
It reads “it started months before Election Day with false claims on Facebook and Twitter that mail-in ballots cast for President Donald Trump had been chucked in dumpsters or rivers.”
AP – Associated Press said a week after the final polls closed, falsehoods about dead people voting and ballots being thrown out by poll workers are still thriving on social media, reaching an audience of millions.
It said “Trump, who primed his supporters for months to doubt this election’s outcome with false tales of ballots being “dumped in rivers” and baseless tweets warning of a “rigged election,” has continued his assault on the U.S. vote in more than 40 Facebook and Twitter posts since Election Day.”
“This was a stolen election,” Trump tweeted on Sunday, the day after Biden became president-elect.
Trump’s supporters have readily echoed the president’s cries of an unfair election on Facebook and Twitter.
