Twitter & media know this isn’t about mail-in ballots or fraud, however about who will get to outline fact; Trump does too

Twitter opened a brand new battlefront within the 2020 US election by ‘fact-checking’ posts by President Donald Trump to say he was flawed about voter fraud. That may usually be the top of the story – besides nothing about that is regular.

On Tuesday, Twitter took the unprecedented step of posting a hyperlink underneath the 2 tweets – made by the president on his private account – itemizing a bunch of mainstream media articles to claim that “fact-checkers say there is no such thing as a proof that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud,” and due to this fact Trump’s opinion concerning the matter is factually flawed.

The transfer adopted a marketing campaign by mainstream media and Democrats to censor Trump over different tweets, insinuating that the intern for former congressman and present MSNBC host Joe Scarborough could not have died unintentionally, which culminated in a requirement for Twitter to “cleanse the Trump stain” in a New York Instances op-ed earlier on Tuesday. 

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Attempt as they could, Twitter couldn’t discover any violation of their ever-shifting guidelines to pin on Trump, so that they did the subsequent smartest thing and “fact-checked” him. Little question, whoever got here up with this figured it was a extremely intelligent approach to appease the outrage mob. Positive, the Trump 2020 marketing campaign would protest the bias – and reveal within the course of that they pulled ads from Twitter months in the past – however they are often dismissed, not like the refrain of his critics.

Then the White Home Press Secretary fired off a thread stuffed with current tales about mail-in poll issues – varieties being mailed to the lifeless or individuals who’d lengthy since moved away, a Philadelphia choose simply convicted for stuffing the poll field, and so forth. – clearly exhibiting the Twitter “truth checkers” had some explaining to do. 

In response to the @reviewjournal, there was an inflow of absentee ballots that had been “NO GOOD”.

A 36 year-veteran service with USPS stated recipients “all moved or died”.

She saved 65 ballots from simply her first supply day‼️ https://t.co/VwZ337vZCI

— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) Might 26, 2020

That ought to not come as a shock to anybody. In any case, these are the identical retailers which have peddled the Russiagate conspiracy principle with impunity for the previous 4 years, and even racked up prestigious awards for the blatantly fraudulent protection. Mainstream media archives are plagued by “bombshells” designed to first forestall Trump’s election, then inauguration, then get him impeached or in any other case faraway from workplace. Each single one turned out to be a dud.

“However Trump lies! Always!” scream in unison the folks used to being not simply gatekeepers of “respectable discourse” however the tone police of Washington, the arbiters of the suitable, the individuals who imagine their pen shapes the very material of actuality. Individuals who headline their tales with “what you need to know” and “how you need to assume.”

When challenged, they type ranks and scream they’re being unjustly attacked and “delegitimized” – however provided that it’s certainly one of their mainstream colleagues known as out for his or her excesses. Anybody else, from Julian Assange to different retailers, can rot as a result of the valuable First Modification doesn’t apply to them, supposedly.

CNN needed to settle a lawsuit after defaming an adolescent from Covington, Kentucky. To keep away from an identical destiny, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow argued that when she says “actually” that’s not information however humorous hyperbole, primarily dismissing her total present as faux information. 

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It’s telling that this very phrase – faux information – has develop into synonymous with Trump’s criticism of the media, though it was initially utilized by Hillary Clinton as an excuse for dropping the 2016 election. , the election the mainstream media gave her 98 p.c possibilities of profitable virtually to the very finish, and overtly endorsed her on the similar charge? 

For those who thought Clinton took that loss arduous, although, you clearly haven’t been being attentive to the media. Trump’s victory was an existential disaster for them, the second their energy to dictate the form of actuality itself was uncovered as a mirage.

This is the reason they’ve spent the previous 4 years lobbing Russiagate and different ‘bombshells’ at him. This is the reason they’ve led the outrage mobs, not simply towards Trump or the tens of millions of “deplorables” that voted for him, but in addition towards the social media platforms he used to bypass them in 2016, so he wouldn’t be capable to do this once more this November. Don’t assume for a second any of that is about mail-in ballots, which – very like immigration and different points – Democrats themselves as soon as was once towards.

After they wrote freedom of speech into the Structure, America’s founders could not have imagined president can be an unlikely champion of it, whereas the “free press” can be clamoring for censorship to protect its energy. But right here we’re.

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