Trump Unleashes 6AM Posting Frenzy That Raises Eyebrows

The president delivered one of his patented early-morning Truth Social posting sprees on Thursday morning.


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Donald Trump has been known for hours-long posting sprees on Truth Social, often at weird times of day or night. He had one such spree on Thursday morning in which, per The Daily Beast, Trump posted 31 posts in a row, starting at about 6 a.m.

The posts covered “everything from his prospective invasion of Greenland to his long-running gripes against Barack Obama and his thoroughly debunked claims the 2020 election was rigged.”

The main topic was the raid on Wednesday on an election office in Georgia, presumably meant to buttress the president’s longstanding but always false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, in that state and elsewhere.

“Fulton County, where a grand jury indicted Trump in 2023 for alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in a case that has since been dismissed, has long served as a centerpiece of MAGA conspiracy theories about the president’s electoral defeat,” the Daily Beast said of the claims. “He narrowly lost the state in the 2020 election, and he and his allies have insisted a nefarious plot was behind that loss, pushing bogus claims about suitcases of fraudulent ballots and illegal late-night counts that Republican poll-watchers were excluded from.”

Many of the posts were reposts of others and of Fox News and NewsNation segments, while he also mixed in some posts about his continuing desire to take over Greenland. The president also posted several of the same posts more than once.

The president appears to be going with a long-debunked conspiracy theory that Barack Obama somehow stage-managed the “theft” of the 2020 election, leading to Joe Biden’s victory. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, largely missing in action for much of the last year, was present Wednesday for the raids in Georgia.

Trump also posted a completely false story about Walmart pulling stores out of California due to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s “$22/hour minimum wage.” Walmart has not done so, nor is that really California’s minimum wage.

 

By 8 a.m., Trump was complaining about Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and the lack of another interest rate cut this week.

Photo courtesy of the Political Tribune media library. 


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