Twitter slapped a warning label on one of Trump’s tweets referring to mail-in ballots for the first time Tuesday

The president, within minutes on Tuesday, accused Twitter of “interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post,” while adding that the platform is “completely stifling FREE SPEECH,” and vowing that “I, as President, will not allow that to happen.”

.@Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election. They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020

.@Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election. They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020

Trump doesn’t elaborate on how he intends to stop it, but I suspect it will likely be through a lawsuit.

I’d like to note something else in Twitter’s ‘rebuttal’ of Trump’s tweets regarding the mail-in ballots because I’m seeing articles on it. Twitter writes that Trump ‘falsely’ claimed that everyone in California will get a ballot, because only registered voters will receive them. Technically that’s true, as Newsom’s order specifies only registered voters.

But I think what Trump is referring to here is the monumental effort to register voters in California that will spawn from this order and all the people who will get ballots that shouldn’t. Remember Acorn, Obama’s favorite voter-registration group? They were actually convicted for paying people to register to vote. Voter registration fraud has been a huge problem in some states and I have no doubt that these groups will try and register as many people as possible in California before the election, including illegals and dead people. It certainly won’t be ‘everyone’ as Trump states, but it’ll be a lot of people who aren’t currently registered to vote and some who legally can’t vote.

The potential for ‘rigged elections’, as Trump put it, is massive. As a detective who broke an absentee ballot case back in 2012 in Southern Florida that resulted in arrests and sentences stated, “absentee ballots are the Holy Grail to fraudsters.” And I think in this case it starts with voter registration fraud.

UPDATE: Twitter’s new warning label was issued even though a Twitter spokesperson acknowledged to Fox News that Trump’s tweet had not broken any of the platform’s rules, and even though some other experts have raised fraud concerns surrounding mail-in voting.

The warning label came after Trump tweeted: "There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!!"

There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone.....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020

....living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020

Within hours, Twitter then appended a label to the bottom of the tweet reading, "Get the facts about mail-in ballots.”

Clicking that label brought readers to a paragraph reading: "On Tuesday, President Trump made a series of claims about potential voter fraud after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced an effort to expand mail-in voting in California during the COVID-19 pandemic. These claims are unsubstantiated, according to CNN, Washington Post and others. Experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud."

Twitter went on to note in a "What to Know" section that "fact-checkers say there is no evidence that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud" and that "Trump falsely claimed that California will send mail-in ballots to 'anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there.' In fact, only registered voters will receive ballots."

Twitter acknowledged Trump's tweet "is not in violation of the Twitter Rules as it does not directly try to dissuade people from voting — it does, however, contain misleading information about the voting process, specifically mail-in ballots, and we’re offering more context to the public."

A Twitter spokesperson also told Fox News that Trump's tweets "contain potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots," and that "this decision is in line with the approach we shared earlier this month."

Meanwhile, Republicans have long argued that many states fail to adequately clean up their voter rolls.