Twitter’s Trump ‘Fact Check’ Does Not Disclose Company Partnered with Groups Pushing Mail-In Ballots

Aaron Klein27 May 2020

Twitter for the first time put a fact-check label on tweets from President Trump, using the controversial tactic on messages in which the president complained there is “no way” that “mail-in ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent.”

It may be instructive that Twitter seized on the mail-in balloting tweets as the first issue from Trump’s rapid fire social media feed to slap with a fact-check label. Twitter did not disclose in its so-called fact-check it is partners with two groups financed by leftist donors that engage in voter participation efforts, including drives pushing mail-in balloting.

Twitter sits on the “Premier Partner” list of one of those groups alongside ViacomCBS, the merger of Viacom and CBS. Twitter’s so-called fact-check about Trump’s mail-in balloting cited CBS political reporter Grace Segers vouching for mail-in voting.

Analysts have posited such proposals help the Democratic Party. Republicans specifically fear the prospect of voter fraud, since mail-in voting would be harder to authenticate.

Yesterday, Trump tweeted the following, earning him the badge reading “Get the facts about mail-in ballots”:

Twitter did not disclose it is an active “Premier Partner” of Vote Early Day 2020, an election advocacy group seeking to educate voters that they can cast their ballots prior to Election Day, including via the vote-by-mail option.

The front page of the group’s website promotes mail-in balloting, telling voters that “more states are adopting additional Vote Early options, such as vote-by-mail, and we are expecting these changes to increase voter turnout. We want everyone to know their options.”

The organization suggests voters “throw a party or parade” so “friends can come together to fill-in their mail-in ballots.”

The website states:

Through parties at the polls and community parades to early voting sites, organizations across the country will inspire more Americans to vote early. Even in states without in-person early voting, friends can come together to fill-in their mail-in ballots.

The group’s mission statement includes mail-in options (emphasis added):

When Americans vote early, they ensure that last minute problems will not prevent them from casting their ballots – and help shorten voting lines on Election Day for everyone. But voting early rules – both for in-person and by-mail options – vary widely all over the country, causing confusion and preventing voters from casting their ballots. We’re here to make voting early easier. Given our current conditions with COVID-19, having multiple options to safely cast your ballot is critical.

Vote Early Day openly states it is supported by one organization: “Vote Early Day is a holiday for all Americans supported by a project at New Venture Fund.”

The New Venture Fund, or NVF, is in turn managed under an administrative agreement with the shadowy, massively funded Arabella Advisors strategy company that pushes the interests of wealthy leftist donors.

Arabella specializes in sponsoring countless dark money pop-up organizations advocating progressive policies and designed to look like grassroots activist groups, as exposed in a recent extensive report by conservative watchdog Capital Research Center.

Billionaire activist George Soros’s Open Society documents that it provided financing to the Sixteen Thirty Fund, one of four nonprofits run by Arabella Advisors, another being the NVF. Arabella nonprofits also evidence close financial workings with initiatives for the Democracy Alliance, another network of highly influential donors, including Soros.

Meanwhile, Twitter serves as a “Premier Partner” of Vote Early Day 2020 along with ViacomCBS and other media firms.

Twitter’s “fact-check” about Trump’s mail-in balloting cited Segers, the CBS political reporter, tweeting the following about mail-in voting:

Other listed media companies that are “Premier Partners” of Vote Early Day are BuzzFeed, MTV, Univision and USA Today.

More “Premier Partners” include leftist groups such as the League of Women Voters, the Democracy Fund, Alliance for Youth Organizing and Rise.

MTV recently partnered with Michelle Obama to host a virtual prom with the subtheme of increasing voter turnout. The television event is produced in partnership with When We All Vote, an organization for which Obama serves as a co-chair and that seeks to increase voter participation.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/27/twitters-trump-fact-check-does-not-disclose-company-partnered-with-groups-pushing-mail-in-ballots/

Watch Joni Ernst’s Campaign Exposes Theresa Greenfield’s Anti-Corporate PAC Hypocrisy

Sen. Joni Ernt’s (R-IA) campaign released a video on Wednesday exposing Iowa Senate Democrat Theresa Greenfield’s anti-corporate donation hypocrisy.

Greenfield, who is endorsed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), has long pledged to root out the corruption and influence of corporations and special interests. The Iowa Democrat promised in 2019 not to take any corporate PAC donations.

The Ernst campaign video details many of Greenfield’s primary opponents attacking the DSCC-backed candidate for taking corporate PAC donations during a recent Iowa Senate Democrat primary debate.

In rebuttal to many of her primary opponents’ attacks, she said, “They only donate to influence our elected officials.”

Kimberly Graham, another Iowa Senate Democrat candidate, said that Greenfield received “$153,000 from corporate lobbyists.”

“I can’t control what dark money groups do. I have nothing to say about it,” Greenfield said in the video.

“Theresa Greenfield’s blatant hypocrisy and dishonesty have been exposed by her fellow Democrats,” Melissa Deatsch, an Ernst campaign spokesperson, said in a statement on Wednesday. “It’s painfully obvious to Iowans that Greenfield is not only unprepared to lead, but is untruthful. Iowans can’t trust Theresa Greenfield.”

An Open Secrets report in December 2019 revealed the extent to which Democrat leadership PACs, which are funded by corporate donations, fund Greenfield’s Senate campaign.

Open Secrets found that the most generous corporate PACs — Honeywell International, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman — donate to Democrat leadership PACs, and subsequently fund Greenfield’s Senate campaign.

Greenfield claimed on Tuesday that she would fight corporate PAC money in Washington, DC.

“I’m running to ban corporate PAC money and to make Washington work for you,” Greenfield wrote on Tuesday.

Matt Whitlock, a senior advisor for the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), noted that Iowans “can see through this hypocrisy.”

“Pretending you’re running to ban Corporate PAC money while taking the most Corporate PAC money of any Democrat Senate challenger is just so disingenuous,” Whitlock wrote on Tuesday.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/27/watch-joni-ernsts-campaign-exposes-theresa-greenfields-anti-corporate-pac-hypocrisy/