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