"Wall Street Journal jeered after printing Trump rant about 2020 election"
Catherine Garcia, Night editor Wed, October 27, 2021, 7:21 PM·2 min read
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Joe and Meka were critical of the Wall Street Journal for publishing Donald Trump account of the 2020 election also.
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Donald Trump
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"The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday published a letter to the editor from former President Donald Trump containing a multitude of falsehoods that have been fact-checked by the newspaper and other publications.
Trump's letter was in response to a Monday editorial about Pennsylvania's state Supreme Court. The editorial stated, factually, that President Biden won Pennsylvania in 2020 by 80,555 ballots, which set Trump off. "Well, actually, the election was rigged, which you, unfortunately, still haven't figured out," Trump wrote.
He went on to make several false claims about the vote in Pennsylvania, including that "120,000 excess voters are not yet accounted for by the Pennsylvania Department of State — far more votes than voters!" This was debunked by The Philadelphia Inquirer's Jonathan Lai in January, who wrote that state GOP lawmakers came up with this number after looking at incomplete data, calculating that nearly 7 million votes were cast but not quite 6.8 million voters participated in the election. Philadelphia, Allegheny, Butler, and Cambria counties had not uploaded all their voter history data, the Pennsylvania Department of State said in a statement, adding, "We are unclear as to exactly what data and what the legislators actually did to offer this so-called 'analysis.'" Read more https://news.yahoo.com/wall-street-journal-jeered-printing-232159076.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
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Thomas Williams - So, the truth hurts this country's media members, right?
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Barbara Mason - Facebook
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