Twitter flags Trump’s tweets on illegal votes as ‘misleading’

Tweets by US President Donald Trump alleging that thousands of illegal votes were received on election day after 8:00 pm have been labelled as “misleading” by Twitter, a social networking service.

In a series of tweets on Saturday, Trump said these illegal votes were not observed and this led to a change in the results in Pennsylvania – a state initially projected thought would be won by the president.

Joe Biden, the Democratic Party nominee, has already been projected as the winner of the election after securing 284 electoral college votes as against Trump’s 214.

A presidential candidate is required to secure at least 270 electoral college votes to become president of the US.

Trump said his “massive lead” in states like Pennsylvania disappeared because of the alleged illegal votes.

“Tens of thousands of votes were illegally received after 8pm on Tuesday, election day, totally and easily changing the results in Pennsylvania and certain other razor thin states. As a separate matter, hundreds of thousands of votes were illegally not allowed to be observed,” the president tweeted.

“This would also change the election result in numerous states, including Pennsylvania, which everyone thought was easily won on election night, only to see a massive lead disappear, without anyone being allowed to observe for long intervals of time, what happened.

“Bad things took place during those hours where legal transparency was viciously and crudely not allowed.

“Tractors blocked doors and windows were covered with thick cardboard so that observers could not see into the count rooms. Bad things happened inside. Big changes took place!”