{"id":1459019,"date":"2022-04-30T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T17:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1459019"},"modified":"2022-04-30T13:44:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T17:44:42","slug":"fact-check-did-donald-trump-issue-this-statement-advising-his-supporters-to-boycott-the-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-donald-trump-issue-this-statement-advising-his-supporters-to-boycott-the-midterm-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Donald Trump Issue This Statement Advising His Supporters To Boycott The Midterm Elections?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-donald-trump-issue-this-statement-advising-his-supporters-to-boycott-the-midterm-elections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1459019&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thailandjohn\/posts\/pfbid02NYC3b9zsjnE1zU9fgS9zeLNLzwnzPrdkVyRpibmHwA1BttfbnF8Sgv9w1H7hwQWel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows a statement from former President Donald Trump urging his supporters to boycott the upcoming midterm elections if his preferred candidates do not win their primary elections.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The image is digitally fabricated. There is no record of Trump making such a statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump had endorsed over 100 political candidates running for office in the upcoming midterm elections, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/the-trump-2022-endorsement-tracker-0dc7c491-4543-4d2c-a924-8bbd26e23865.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Axios<\/a>. Now, an image shared on Facebook claims to show an April 27 statement from the former president encouraging his supporters not to vote in the upcoming elections if his preferred candidates do not win their primaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the tough and freedom-loving candidates I\u2019ve endorsed for Congress lose their primaries this summer, I invite all the Great MAGA Patriots to BOYCOTT the midterm elections in November,\u201d reads part of the alleged statement.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/06\/07\/fact-check-nancy-pelosi-chuck-schumer-tweets-donald-trump-coins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Nancy Pelosi And Chuck Schumer Send These Tweets About Donald Trump Presidential Coins?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The statement is digitally fabricated. No such press release appears on Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>. There are likewise no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Trump+encourages+voters+to+boycott+midterms&#038;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS820US820&#038;oq=Trump+encourages+voters+to+boycott+midterms&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57.8636j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">credible news reports<\/a> about the purported statement.<\/p>\n<p>Trump spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/18\/politics\/fact-check-liz-harrington-trump-spokeswoman-election\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liz Harrington<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realLizUSA\/status\/1520034668338421760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1520034668338421760%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2022%2F4%2F29%2F2094828%2F-HILARIOUS-Trump-Toady-Retweets-Satirical-Demand-that-If-We-Can-t-MAGA-Stay-Home-in-November\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">responded<\/a> to Lincoln Project co-founder Mike Madrid\u2019s April 29 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/madrid_mike\/status\/1519827732460453888\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a> featuring the image by stating, \u201cOh look, they\u2019re spreading disinformation again.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Oh look, they\u2019re spreading disinformation again <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YYtNKGQbD8\">https:\/\/t.co\/YYtNKGQbD8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realLizUSA\/status\/1520034668338421760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The image appears to originate with the Twitter account @HalfwayPost, which <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HalfwayPost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">labels<\/a> itself \u201cdada journalism, satire &#038; liberal comedy.\u201d The account shared the image in an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HalfwayPost\/status\/1519690345335959555\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 28 tweet<\/a> that now has over 900 retweets.<\/p>\n<p>Trump did previously suggest in October 2021 that Republicans would not vote in the midterms or in the 2024 presidential election if the fraud he claims occurred in the 2020 election was not \u201csolved,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-says-republicans-wont-vote-midterms-2024-election-if-2020-fraud-isnt-solved-1638730\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows a statement from former President Donald Trump urging his supporters to boycott the upcoming midterm elections if his preferred candidates do not win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":1481093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}