Trump Corrects Himself After Referring to Brazil's Presidential Election as India's
Trump corrected his post to Brazil and repeated his claim that slower U.S. vote counts show corruption, despite Brazil recording 125.27 million valid votes.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump criticized U.S. election counting speed, comparing it unfavorably to Brazil's rapid results. He claimed American counts take weeks to process.
- Brazil's recent election, which took place on Sunday, sent President Luiz and Senator Bolsonaro to a runoff. Trump noted that results emerged soon after polls closed.
- Trump alleged that in Detroit, Philadelphia, and California, vote counts take weeks despite smaller numbers. He initially wrote "Rig" in his post, later correcting it to "calculate."
- His post concluded, signed as President DJT, with the declaration "Voting in America is CORRUPT." The post provided no evidence for these claims about U.S. counting.
- Courthouse News reported that the about 124.5 million turnout figure Trump cited is close to the actual total. The post appeared as Trump boarded Air Force One at Chicago's Hare International Airport.
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The electoral count is one of Trump's obsessions, which faces bad prospects according to polls in the mid-term elections on November 3rd.
Trump Declares ‘Voting in America Is CORRUPT’
“President Donald Trump declared ‘Voting in America is CORRUPT’ in a late-night Truth Social post on Sunday as he seized on Brazil’s presidential election to renew his attacks on the way ballots are counted in the United States,” Mediaite reports.
Trump Just Made A Massive Flub While Complaining About 'CORRUPT' U.S. Elections
President Donald Trump continued to sow doubt about the integrity of U.S. elections late Sunday night, using a Truth Social post to contrast the outcome of the “first round of India’s Presidential Election” with the “CORRUPT” process in the States.
Trump accused the US voting system of corruption and compared it to the Brazilian election, where results came in on the same day.
Trump declares U.S. voting ‘CORRUPT’ as he lays groundwork to challenge midterms results
Donald Trump is once again attacking the integrity of American elections — this time less than a month before voters head to the polls for the midterm elections. In a late-night Truth Social rant Sunday, Trump declared that “Voting in America is CORRUPT!!!” while complaining that some U.S. election results take longer to count than […]
Washington, Oct. 5 (EFE).- U.S. President Donald Trump described the U.S. electoral system as "corrupt" without presenting evidence, and suggested that the results are "tied" in cities or Democratic states by comparing it with the speed of scrutiny in the elections held this Sunday in Brazil. "125 million people voted [...] Trump's entry calls for scrutiny on the same day as in Brazil in the face of "corruption" in the U.S. was first published i…
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