Donald Trump accuses Twitter of 'stifling free speech' after site fact-checks vote-by-mail tweet

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Donald Trump accuses Twitter of 'stifling free speech' after site fact-checks vote-by-mail tweet
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Twitter's action marks the first time the platform has ever marked any of Trump's tweets as misleading.

".@Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election," Trump wrote in response."They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post........Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!"is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election.

In fact, the CARES Act that Trump signed into law on March 27 allocated $400 million to help states"prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, domestically or internationally, for the 2020 Federal election cycle." U.S. President Donald Trump makes remarks during an event on protecting seniors with diabetes, in the Rose Garden at the White House on May 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. The United States is closing in on 100,000 deaths in less than four months caused by the coronavirus.On April 24, the governors of New York and Kentucky signed executive orders expanding voting-by-mail.

In response to Michigan and Nevada's plans, Trump wrote in a May 20 tweet,"I can hold up funds to the State. Sorry, but you must not cheat in elections."

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