Trump electoral fraud mentions

[cosmicaug]

Hi,

I recall running into a claim this last week, circa 5 days ago after the 'delay the election' Trump tweet, that I'd like to reference (who put it out —but also whether it's reliable). The context is how so many folk do not take a Trump tweet such as that seriously. The claim was regarding the number of times Trump has made claims about electoral fraud and the number was higher than 700 times.

My google-fu is failing me & I have not been able to find it again.

Does this ring a bell for anyone? Who would have made such an analysis? Or am I imagining this or misremembering something else?

Thanks in advance.

[soothsayer]

1. This?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213841177


How often [has Trump] questioned voting or suggested that an election would be rigged? 713 times

[soothsayer]

2. Here's the tweet

Link to tweet

?s=21

[cosmicaug]

4. That's probably it!

That's it!

I suspect that that is probably even how I ran into this.

I'm thinking that it may be how I ran into this because I do follow Jeff Sharlet on Twitter so that very tweet is likely where I saw it.

713 since 2012 implies an average number of mentions of well over once a week. The relevant interval should probably start in 2015 which would be an even higher average number of mentions per week ("...he came up with seven hundred and thirteen references by Trump since 2012, the vast majority occurring in clusters as the elections of 2016, 2018, and 2020 neared." ). Indeed, for this year it averages over 3 mentions per week ("Already, Factbase has recorded ninety-one instances of such rhetoric from Trump this year, a number which is all but sure to escalate." ).

I think this qualifies as an obsession. I also would suggest that to think that Trump doesn't really mean his various comments regarding delaying the election or that his coyness about whether he'd accept an electoral defeat doesn't really mean anything (or even that he must be saying such things to distract from whatever the current Trump cluster**** of the week may be, as various folk will suggest) is incredibly naïve.

In any case, given that I've been trying to track it down for days, I suspect I would not have found it on my own. Thank you.

[soothsayer]

5. No prob! I'm the one who posted it here days ago so I recognized it

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[soothsayer]

3. Frischling seems legit

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billfrischling