MINI-THREAD: Trump "returned to form" today on Twitter, with personal insults against Dems and inaccurate info about the pandemic. But one thing is still missing: While Trump deals with his illness, he has temporarily shut off his firehose of disinformation about voting. (1/5)
Trump's last lie about voting was Thursday night, on Sean Hannity's show. (He falsely claimed Nevada Dems eliminated signature verification for mail-in ballots.) That means FIVE DAYS have now elapsed without Trump spreading any disinformation about the election. (2/5)
For Trump, this five-day respite is remarkable. Before his illness, Trump lied almost every day about voting procedures, alleged election-rigging, and fraud rates. Indeed, before his diagnosis on Oct. 2, the most recent day that he DIDN'T lie about voting was Sept. 11. (3/5)
I examined all of Trump's public statements from the past four months. (Thank you, @FactbaseFeed!!) The current five-day drought of disinformation is the longest Trump has gone without lying about voting procedures in 11 weeks. That takes us all the way back to July 22. (4/5)
Trump is a creature of habit, so his inaccurate claims and democracy-harming disinformation about voting will soon return. (To be sure, his allies never stopped.) But right now, Trump has personally been quiet on that front, during his hospitalization and now at the WH. (5/5)
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