Donald Trump on Friday broke his post-election silence on his failing Reality Social platform, issuing threats in opposition to unnamed individuals who he mentioned had been trash speaking his firm.
“There are fake, untrue, and probably illegal rumors and/or statements made by, perhaps, market manipulators or short sellers, that I am interested in selling shares of Truth. THOSE RUMORS OR STATEMENTS ARE FALSE. I HAVE NO INTENTION OF SELLING!” Trump wrote in the TruthSocial post. “I hereby request that the people who have set off these fake rumors or statements, and who may have done so in the past, be immediately investigated by the appropriate authorities. Truth is an important part of our historic win, and I deeply believe in it. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
It was the primary actual remark he is made on his Reality Social feed since his victory on Tuesday. The few different posts he despatched had been merely photographs of newspapers asserting his win.
Trump’s Reality Social inventory worth has fallen precipitously for the reason that firm went public in March.
Initially, the inventory was buying and selling round $60 when the corporate first went public. It is now buying and selling at round $30, up from the nose-dive it took in September amid stories that Trump was eligible to begin buying and selling his personal shares and probably money out on the failing platform.
The truth that Reality Social is buying and selling at something of worth is confounding, as the location has barely any customers and misplaced $19 million within the third quarter alone, Axios reported.
Now that Trump will take workplace once more, it’s unclear whether or not he’ll put his shares in a blind belief to keep away from flouting ethics guidelines. After all, Trump has no ethics and didn’t put his corporations in a blind belief the primary time round, so it’s unlikely he’ll accomplish that now.
Additionally absurd is that Trump mentioned in his put up the “truth is an important part” of his win.
Trump is a infamous liar.
CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale wrote an article forward of Trump’s win titled “Donald Trump’s campaign of relentless lying,” during which he implored media organizations to cowl Trump’s lies extra typically.
“For the third consecutive presidential election, the Republican presidential nominee is running a relentlessly dishonest campaign for the world’s most powerful office,” he wrote. “Wildly exaggerating statistics, grossly distorting his opponent’s record and his own, regularly just plain making stuff up, Trump is lying to American voters with a frequency and variety whose only precedent is his own previous campaigns.”
In actual fact, throughout Trump’s first spherical, the Washington Put up tracked over 30,000 deceptive statements.
“If you met someone at a bar who told you 25 things that weren’t true, that would be one of the first things you told other people about this encounter,” Dale wrote. “Trump telling the American people 25 things that aren’t true in a rally speech should be one of the first things media outlets tell their readers and viewers about the speech. Maybe then Trump would care a bit more about being corrected.”
Right here’s hoping the media takes Dale’s warnings severely.
