President Donald Trump was at it again.

On Monday night, Trump embarked on one of his periodic late-night social media posting sprees. As usual, his dozens of posts and reposts were littered with debunked conspiracy theories and other wildly inaccurate claims – many of them about past presidential elections and his Democratic foes, notably including former President Barack Obama.

Trump’s posting continued on Tuesday morning. So did his wrongness.

Here’s a brief fact-check breakdown of just some of the content to which readers of his Truth Social feed were treated between about 10pm on Monday and about 8am on Tuesday.

An imaginary quote attributed to a Republican senator

The president shared a pro-Trump commentator’s social media post that featured a supposed attack on Obama from Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana. But the “Kennedy” quote is completely imaginary.

In the fake quote, “Kennedy” demanded that Obama return $120 million that the former president supposedly earned (but actually didn’t) in connection with his Obamacare health care law. The fact-check website Lead Stories reported in February that the fake quote “originated with a satire web publisher who baits conservatives into re-posting fake stories” and that the confusingly worded accusation about Obama that the post put in Kennedy’s mouth – “He allocated money under his own laws using taxpayer-generated prestige” – has also been baselessly attributed to various other public figures, from FBI Director...

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