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Trump’s overnight posting frenzy draws swift pushback, fact-checks

Poynter · Tom Jones · last updated

Posts included false economic claims, election conspiracies and political attacks

Once again, President Donald Trump went on a Truth Social frenzy, and said a bunch of things that simply are not true.

The latest Trump outburst came Wednesday night and continued into Thursday morning.

The Daily Beast’s Cameron Adams reported that during a 36-minute stretch from 9:23 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday until 9:59 p.m., Trump had 48 posts. Adams described them as “wild conspiracy theories and ego-boosting posts.”

That was just a portion of Trump’s social media barrage.

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