By Daniel Dale, CNN
(CNN) — President Donald Trump did another social media posting spree on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. As with Trump’s previous posting blitzes, this one was filled with wildly inaccurate and often conspiratorial claims about elections and other subjects.
Here’s a debunking of two of them.
Trump twice shared a video titled “California Governor PANICS as Walmart Shuts Down 250+ Stores Across State.” The video, echoed by the text in one of the posts Trump shared, claimed that Walmart is preparing to shut down these stores because the retailer can’t afford California’s “$22” per hour minimum wage.
But California’s statewide minimum wage is $16.90 per hour, not $22 – and Walmart told CNN on Thursday morning that it isn’t conducting a massive store closure in California for any reason.
“This isn’t accurate information,” a Walmart spokesperson said. “In fact, we actually just recently opened a new store in California.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office posted on social media on Wednesday night expressing disbelief that Trump had promoted both the false claim about Walmart – “Walmart’s 303 stores in California are open,” Newsom’s office wrote – and an even wilder but equally fake anti-Newsom conspiracy theory the president also shared during the social media blitz.
Newsom’s office wrote: “We cannot believe we have to say any of this out loud. We cannot believe this is real life. And we truly...
By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump did another social media posting spree on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. As with Trump’s previous posting blitzes, this one was filled wit...