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Trump mixes up countries in late-night election meltdown
What happened
AlterNet reports that President Donald Trump confused India with Brazil in a late-night post attacking American elections. He initially attributed Brazil’s roughly 125 million valid first-round presidential votes to India, then deleted the post after Indian news outlets highlighted the error. He later corrected the country but retained the unsupported accusation that delayed U.S. results are “rigged.”
Brazil was headed to a runoff because no candidate received more than 50 percent, according to the report. AlterNet says Trump used Brazil’s faster count to allege corruption in…
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