President Donald Trump’s most prominent adult children — meaning Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Eric — don’t exactly seem to be taking the news of their father’s potentially impending exit from the White House very well. All three of them have now melted down on Twitter and pushed allegations and insinuations that there is some kind of massive fraud underway that’s meant to steal the election from Donald. Quite frankly: they don’t know what they’re talking about. There is no massive fraud underway. The people have spoken, and it’s time for Donald to start planning on leaving the White House.
Donald Trump Jr. has sometimes been the most vocal among Trump’s adult children. On Friday, he claimed that ‘there’s infinitely more evidence of voter fraud than there ever was of “Russia Collusion,”‘ which is just unequivocally not true. Trump Jr. also claimed that when “America sees everything we are uncovering they will be disgusted and even the media won’t be able to pretend voter fraud isn’t real.” Again — promising evidence at some indeterminate point in the future is not the same thing as providing or even having evidence right now. There is no conspiracy to include fraudulent or otherwise invalid votes in the tallies and steal the election from Trump. The Trumps lack meaningful evidence.
There’s infinitely more evidence of voter fraud than there ever was of “Russia Collusion” but strangely no one in the media wants to look into it.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 6, 2020
When America sees everything we are uncovering they will be disgusted and even the media won’t be able to pretend voter fraud isn’t real.
Ending this crap once and for all will be fundamental to preserving our republic and faith in democracy.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 6, 2020
At times, Trump Jr. sounded just plain ignorant, as if he hadn’t thought through what he was saying (although the Trump team’s arguments have never exactly been well-rounded, to say the absolute least). Trump Jr. asked if anyone “really believes” that Biden “shattered” the vote tally records set by Barack Obama when he was first elected in 2008, over ten years ago. Trump Jr. also asked if anyone “really believes” that Biden broke these vote tally records mostly in “big cities.” Where else would large quantities of votes come from? Empty acres of land? “Big cities” are where, wait for it… lots of people live. There’s also a pesky concept that Trump Jr. seems to have forgotten of… wait for it… population growth. Thus, more votes would be cast. Are the Trumps that ignorant?
Serious question… could it be that to get the highest number of fraudulent ballots they only filled out one dot rather than take the amount of time to fill out the full ballot??? https://t.co/29pl9uzuxb
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 6, 2020
Does anyone really believe that Joe Biden shattered Obama’s historic 2008 numbers?
Does anyone really believe that he did that mostly in big cities?
C’mon man!!!
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 6, 2020
There aren’t widespread faked ballots. The Trumps are deluding themselves. Over on his Twitter feed, Eric posted info for a way that the Trump campaign’s supporters can “help stop voter suppression, irregularities, and fraud” via calling up (or otherwise contacting) the campaign and letting them know what they are seeing. In other words: they’ve set up a hotline where bored conspiracists can push ignorant nonsense to a campaign that seems eager to lap it up. They’re also dispatching their supporters against their political opponents — many of whom include marginalized communities like Black Americans. It’s as if the Trump campaign wants its supporters to become a racist goon squad.
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) November 6, 2020
Over on her own Twitter feed, Ivanka Trump also peddled some nonsense. She said that “Every legally cast vote should be counted” and “Every illegally cast vote should not” be counted — but the underlying premise that there’s some kind of widespread influx of illegally cast votes is simply false. There is not.
Every legally cast vote should be counted. Every illegally cast vote should not. This should not be controversial.
This is not a partisan statement — free and fair elections are the foundation of our democracy. 🇺🇸
— Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) November 6, 2020
Check out Twitter’s response below:
