SUPER PIN IT - The 5 wildest claims from Trump’s Facebook speech

President Trump on Wednesday released a 46-minute-long videotaped speech on Facebook including a series of wild claims urging people not to accept the election results.

Mr Trump started the address from the Diplomatic Room of the White House saying that this “may be the most important speech I’ve ever made”.

The speech, which was pre-recorded without any journalists present to question the claims, was released on Facebook as a full video and on Twitter with a short 2-minute version with a link to the full version attached. Twitter was quick to label it “disputed” while Facebook added a note about Joe Biden’s projected victory.

In the speech recorded last week, the outgoing president repeated a series of debunked claims of voter-fraud and winning swing states. Here are the top five wildest claims President Trump made in the address.



Postal ballots without verification
Repeating his calls to delegitimise mail-in ballots, Mr Trump said: “Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, Georgia, Arizona, and most other states allowed anyone to get an absentee ballot and cast their vote without showing any ID.”

Ballots by ‘dead people’
Mr Trump again repeated his claims of false voting in the name of dead people, particularly in Pennsylvania and Michigan. But according to officials in both states, there’s no evidence that something like this occurred on any kind of scale.

Victory in swing states
Mr Trump has complained repeatedly that he was initially ahead of Joe Biden in key battleground states such as Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, and it changed as postal ballots were “dumped” overnight.

Votes tallied in ‘foreign countries’
Donald Trump repeated the claims his lawyer Rudy Giuliani made earlier in a press conference, that the votes in the presidential elections were “counted in a foreign country”.

Absent Poll watchers
Mr Trump has repeated this claim multiple times and stated again that Republican poll watchers were blocked from properly observing as votes were being counted.

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