Trump shared more than 330 conspiracy posts on Truth Social from March to September: report

Donald TrumpRussia’s penchant for paranoid conspiracies is no secret of the deep state. But between March and September of this year, the former president shared such theories on his all-purpose social network, Truth Social, at a rate of nearly two posts a day.

This statistic is one of several startling findings in new New York Times review Trump’s Truth Social account, which collected and analyzed 5,641 Trump posts over a six-month period. Of those posts, at least 330 described a “false, secret conspiracy against Trump or the American people” and blamed a specific person or organization. Time found. Another 388 posts contained conspiratorial slogans or images, such as acronyms associated with QAnon.

Some of Trump’s favorite conspiracies aren’t particularly inventive: He’s published 43 reports about George Soros, billionaire philanthropist and longtime punching bag of right-wing conspiracists around the world.

But the former president also spread false rumors and far-right fantasies that directly undermine voters’ trust in the federal government and, importantly, the electoral process. Republicans have already laid the foundation challenge next week’s election results in several swing states, and new CNN poll found that most voters believe Trump would not concede if he lost to the vice president. Kamala Harris.

His recent work at Social Truth includes 25 unsubstantiated reports of “rigging” in the 2020 election and 22 unsubstantiated reports of a shadowy “deep state” in the federal government that Trump promises to destroy. Since March, he has published or shared at least 268 posts that baselessly claim his opponents are manipulating the 2024 election, including by importing undocumented immigrants or fabricating court cases against him.

“I, along with many attorneys and legal scholars, are watching very closely the sanctity of the 2024 Presidential election,” Trump tweeted on October 25, “because I know better than anyone the rampant fraud and fraud that is taking place among Democrats in the Presidential elections 2020.”

Time The analysis also found that Trump regularly posts content from anonymous accounts that routinely peddle offensive and misleading posts, including sexual comments about Harris and manipulated photos and videos. In August, Trump posted a meme about himself — “Trump is 100% innocent,” it read, from an account that routinely embraces false election conspiracies, including claims that police were arresting Republican voters or closing early voting centers in Republican towns. areas.

Trump has nearly eight million followers on Truth Social, where he posts dozens of posts a day. On Tuesday, the former president used the site to rally Pennsylvania voters… and encourage law enforcement officials who: He claimed to be patrolling the state for “VOTER FRAUD!”