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Thursday, June 25, 2026

WSJ defends running Trump letter full of obvious election false claims - Business Insider

  • The WSJ hit back at critics after it published a letter by Trump that included several falsehoods.
  • Its opinion section published, without challenge, Trump's assertion the 2020 election was rigged.
  • After considerable backlash the WSJ defended the gesture, saying Trump's "monomania is news."

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The Wall Street Journal defended itself from critics after it published a letter from former President Donald Trump containing a slew of false statements about the 2020 election.

Trump's letter was published Wednesday by the paper's opinion section and ran to nearly 600 words. It falsely claimed that "the election was rigged" and listed numerous supposed irregularities, which the Journal published without correction.

The letter was itself a response to a Wall Street Journal editorial discussing the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision on ballot counting rules, which mentioned how President Joe Biden convincingly won in the state.

There was an immediate backlash to Trump's letter. The next day, the paper defended the move in an editorial titled "The Facts on Trump's Fraud...



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