Twitter seems to have heard enough from President Trump.
With the election yet to be called, the company censored a series of Trump tweets on Saturday morning alleging voter fraud in Pennsylvania and other key battleground states.
“Tens of thousands of votes were illegally received after 8 P.M. on Tuesday, Election Day, totally and easily changing the results in Pennsylvania and certain other razor thin states,” he wrote. “As a separate matter, hundreds of thousands of Votes were illegally not allowed to be OBSERVED.”
Trump added that his “massive lead” in Pennsylvania on Election Day withered away in the middle of Wednesday night “without anyone being allowed to OBSERVE” what was going on.
In the past several days, videos have circulated from various polling precincts throughout the country showing tense standoffs and accusations of improprieties, but media coverage has downplayed allegations of fraud, instead noting the unprecedented nature of an election that has featured tens of millions of ballots cast early and through the mail.
Twitter’s decision is not the first form of censorship placed on Trump by a private company in the days since the counting began. On Thursday, MSNBC and CNBC pulled away from a Trump press conference during which he made similar accusations of voter fraud.
In a follow-up tweet sent Saturday morning, Trump said that “bad things” happened during the early morning hours of vote-counting in Michigan and Pennsylvania, where his lead evaporated quickly.
“Tractors blocked doors & windows were covered with thick cardboard so that observers could not see into the count rooms,” Trump wrote. “BAD THINGS HAPPENED INSIDE. BIG CHANGES TOOK PLACE!”
