Trump cooks up 15 election falsehoods In a Thanksgiving eve phone call, President Trump dished out at least 15 false or misleading statements about the election in less than 10 minutes. His allies including Rudy Giuliani were in Gettysburg, Pa., yet again falsely claiming that President-elect Joe Biden stole the election. Trump joined in on loudspeaker with a reality-denying rant, refusing to acknowledge that Biden won 306 electoral votes to his 232 and that no evidence of fraud has emerged in dozens of lawsuits filed by the Trump campaign and dismissed by judges across the country. Trump: "You look at the things that happened in Detroit, where you have a voter, but you have more votes than you have voters." This is false. There were more registered voters than actual voters. Trump appears to be referring to a debunked claim about over-votes of as much as 300 percent in some precincts in Wayne County, which covers Detroit. That was based on an affidavit from a since-dismissed case that bizarrely mixed up Michigan and Minnesota, so the precincts in question were actually from some of the reddest parts of Minnesota, not the bluest in Michigan. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Trump's cheesed-up comments about Wisconsin A Trump tweet in which everything is false: "In Wisconsin, somebody has to be indefinitely confined in order to vote absentee. In the past there were 20,000 people. This past election there were 120,000...and Republicans were locked out of the vote counting process." Wisconsin voters since 2000 have not needed to provide an excuse for absentee voting. The state elections commission told us Trump's statistics for indefinitely confined voters were all wrong. Republicans have been present throughout the state's initial count and an ongoing recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties. Usually we reserve many of these statements for our Trump database, which we just updated through Sept. 11, showing Trump past 23,000 false or misleading claims. But this Wisconsin claim was worth its own look because it's a good example of how unserious and hollow Trump's crusade against the election is. We gave Four Pinocchios to Trump. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP, @rizzoTK, @mmkelly22) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down for this week's Pinocchio roundup. | 
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