CNN: "Fact check: Almost everything Trump has said after Election Day is wrong"

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Analysis by Daniel Dale

Updated 9:31 PM ET, Wed November 4, 2020

Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump spent much of the year laying the groundwork for the strategy of concerted dishonesty he has deployed in the hours after Election Day.

First, months ago, he began falsely portraying mail-in ballots as rife with fraud. Second, he falsely claimed that Democratic governors who don't like him are in charge of ballot-counting. Third, he falsely argued that there is something nefarious and even perhaps illegal about the normal practice of counting votes after Election Day.

All of this nonsense, the dozens of voting-related lies we've had to debunk over and over and over, appeared to be in service of this current moment -- a close election in which he could try to turn the seeds of doubt he had systematically planted in supporters' minds into full-blown rejection of his possible defeat.

Trump launched the plan into action in the early hours of Wednesday morning, delivering a wildly inaccurate White House address in which he baselessly alleged he had already won and baselessly alleged a fraud was being perpetrated against him. Then he retreated to Twitter -- on which almost everything said for the rest of the day was wrong.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/04/politics/fact-check-trump-election-day-tweets/index.html

Well worth reading the rest, Daniel Dale is become quite a celebrity - I love his attitude and thoroughness.

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1. As opposed to everything he has said on or before Election Day?