Donald Trump‘s unsurprising and baseless claim that “cheating” has occurred in the Democratic stronghold of Philadelphia quickly got debunked by the city’s police department. “A lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia. Law Enforcement coming!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social Tuesday afternoon. Minutes later, though, Trump’s message was called out as entirely wrong. In a statement to CNN reporter Holmes Lybrand, the city’s police department said it had no idea what Trump was talking about, and that it didn’t know of any issues that necessitated its intervention. Seth Bluestein, Philadelphia’s Republican City Commissioner, also debunked Trump. “There is absolutely no truth to this allegation. It is yet another example of disinformation. Voting in Philadelphia has been safe and secure,” he wrote on X. Turnout in the city, according to Philadelphia Democratic Party Chairman Robert Brady, “is extremely high.”
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