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	In an [[op-ed]] for ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in August 2016, Scarborough argued that the Republican Party must "dump [[Donald Trump]]" as their [[2016 United States presidential election\|presidential candidate]]. Drawing attention to Trump's remarks about [[Hillary Clinton]] and the [[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution\|Second Amendment]], Scarborough wrote: "A bloody line has been crossed that cannot be ignored. At long last, Donald Trump has left the Republican Party few options but to act decisively and get this political train wreck off the tracks before something terrible happens."<ref>{{cite news \|author=Scarborough, Joe \|date=August 9, 2016 \|title=The GOP must dump Trump \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/08/09/the-gop-must-dump-trump/ \|access-date=August 10, 2016 \|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>		In an [[op-ed]] for ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in August 2016, Scarborough argued that the Republican Party must "dump [[Donald Trump]]" as their [[2016 United States presidential election\|presidential candidate]]. Drawing attention to Trump's remarks about [[Hillary Clinton]] and the [[Second Amendment to the United States Constitution\|Second Amendment]], Scarborough wrote: "A bloody line has been crossed that cannot be ignored. At long last, Donald Trump has left the Republican Party few options but to act decisively and get this political train wreck off the tracks before something terrible happens."<ref>{{cite news \|author=Scarborough, Joe \|date=August 9, 2016 \|title=The GOP must dump Trump \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/08/09/the-gop-must-dump-trump/ \|access-date=August 10, 2016 \|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>

	In June 2017, Scarborough and Brzezinski were the targets of [[Donald Trump on social media\|tweets]] by President Trump that, in response to their coverage of [[First presidency of Donald Trump\|his administration]], referred to Scarborough as "Psycho Joe" and called Brzezinski "low I.Q. Crazy Mika," while asserting that she was "bleeding badly from a face-lift" when he previously encountered her at [[Mar-a-Lago]].<ref>{{cite news \|last=Dale \|first=Daniel \|date=June 29, 2017 \|title='Bleeding badly from a face-lift': Donald Trump just tweeted sexist insults at a female TV host \|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/06/29/bleeding-badly-from-a-face-lift-donald-trump-just-tweeted-sexist-insults-at-a-female-tv-host.html \|publisher=[[Toronto Star]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet \|number=880408582310776832 \|user=realDonaldTrump \|title=I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came.. \|author=Donald J. Trump \|date=June 29, 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629141700/https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/880408582310776832 \|archive-date=June 29, 2017 \|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet \|number=880410114456465411 \|user=realDonaldTrump \|title=...to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no! \|author=Donald J. Trump \|date=June 29, 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629141715/https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/880410114456465411 \|archive-date=June 29, 2017 \|url-status=live}}</ref> The hosts responded with an op-ed in ''The Washington Post'', in which they described White House officials telling them that the president would kill a pending ''[[National Enquirer]]'' article if they apologized to Trump for their coverage of him.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Brzezinski \|first1=Mika \|last2=Scarborough \|first2=Joe \|last3=Brzezinski \|first3=Mika \|last4=Scarborough \|first4=Joe \|date=June 30, 2017 \|title=Donald Trump is not well \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-not-well/2017/06/30/97759ee0-5d0f-11e7-9b7d-14576dc0f39d_story.html?tid=a_inl \|access-date=August 24, 2017 \|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>  The president's tweets received criticism from many Republican lawmakers, including [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives\|Speaker of the House]] [[Paul Ryan]], Senators [[John McCain]], [[Susan Collins]], [[Ben Sasse]], [[Lindsey Graham]], and [[Lisa Murkowski]].<ref>{{cite web \|author=Daniella Diaz \|date=June 29, 2017 \|title=GOP lawmakers blast Trump's 'Morning Joe' tweets \|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/29/politics/lawmakers-react-trump-tweet-joe-scarborough-mika-brzezinski-morning-joe/index.html \|access-date=August 24, 2017 \|website=CNN}}</ref>		In June 2017, Scarborough and Brzezinski were the targets of [[Donald Trump on social media\|tweets]] by President Trump that, in response to their coverage of [[First presidency of Donald Trump\|his administration]], referred to Scarborough as "Psycho Joe" and called Brzezinski "low I.Q. Crazy Mika," while asserting that she was "bleeding badly from a face-lift" when he previously encountered her at [[Mar-a-Lago]].<ref>{{cite news \|last=Dale \|first=Daniel \|date=June 29, 2017 \|title='Bleeding badly from a face-lift': Donald Trump just tweeted sexist insults at a female TV host \|url=https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/06/29/bleeding-badly-from-a-face-lift-donald-trump-just-tweeted-sexist-insults-at-a-female-tv-host.html \|publisher=[[Toronto Star]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet \|number=880408582310776832 \|user=realDonaldTrump \|title=I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came.. \|author=Donald J. Trump \|date=June 29, 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629141700/https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/880408582310776832 \|archive-date=June 29, 2017 \|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet \|number=880410114456465411 \|user=realDonaldTrump \|title=...to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no! \|author=Donald J. Trump \|date=June 29, 2017 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629141715/https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/880410114456465411 \|archive-date=June 29, 2017 \|url-status=live}}</ref> The hosts responded with an op-ed in ''The Washington Post'', in which they described White House officials telling them that the president would kill a pending ''[[National Enquirer]]'' article if they apologized to Trump for their coverage of him.<ref>{{cite news \|last1=Brzezinski \|first1=Mika \|last2=Scarborough \|first2=Joe \|last3=Brzezinski \|first3=Mika \|last4=Scarborough \|first4=Joe \|date=June 30, 2017 \|title=Donald Trump is not well \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-is-not-well/2017/06/30/97759ee0-5d0f-11e7-9b7d-14576dc0f39d_story.html?tid=a_inl \|access-date=August 24, 2017 \|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>  The president's tweets received criticism from many Republican lawmakers, including [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives\|Speaker of the House]] [[Paul Ryan]], Senators [[John McCain]], [[Susan Collins (politician)\|Susan Collins]], [[Ben Sasse]], [[Lindsey Graham]], and [[Lisa Murkowski]].<ref>{{cite web \|author=Daniella Diaz \|date=June 29, 2017 \|title=GOP lawmakers blast Trump's 'Morning Joe' tweets \|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/29/politics/lawmakers-react-trump-tweet-joe-scarborough-mika-brzezinski-morning-joe/index.html \|access-date=August 24, 2017 \|website=CNN}}</ref>

	Trump has also aired "wild allegations and fact-free innuendo"<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2020-05-27 \|title=Trump Pushes a Conspiracy Theory and Falsely Accuses a TV Host of Murder - The New York Times \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/us/politics/klausutis-letter-jack-dorsey.html \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527004424/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/us/politics/klausutis-letter-jack-dorsey.html \|archive-date=May 27, 2020 \|access-date=2023-12-20 \|website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> stemming from an [[False or misleading statements by Donald Trump#Joe Scarborough murder conspiracy theory\|incident from Scarborough's time in Congress]]. On July 20, 2001, while Scarborough was in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref name="Trump pushes">{{cite news \|last1=Baker \|first1=Peter \|last2=Astor \|first2=Maggie \|date=May 26, 2020 \|title=Trump Pushes a Conspiracy Theory That Falsely Accuses a TV Host of Murder \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/us/politics/Klausutis-letter-jack-dorsey.html \|access-date=May 27, 2020 \|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|title=McCarthy sidesteps questions on Trump's baseless conspiracy theory involving Joe Scarborough \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/romney-criticizes-trump-for-promoting-conspiracy-theory-standing-out-among-republicans/2020/05/27/88101922-a022-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html \|access-date=May 28, 2020 \|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|date=May 27, 2020 \|title=Romney defends Joe Scarborough, staffer's widower: 'Enough already' \|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/499703-romney-defends-joe-scarborough-widower-enough-already/ \|access-date=May 28, 2020 \|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)\|The Hill]]}}</ref> one of his aides, 28 years old, Lori Bolterstein Klausutis, was found dead on the floor of his congressional office in [[Fort Walton Beach, Florida]].<ref name="nwfdailynews2001">{{cite web \|title=Stories from 2001 related to Scarborough aide Klausutis' death - Fort Walton Beach, FL \|url=https://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20171208/from-archives-stories-from-2001-related-to-scarborough-aide-Klausutis-death \|access-date=May 28, 2020 \|work=Northwest Florida Daily News}}</ref><ref name="forbes1">{{cite news \|last=Sarkis \|first=Stephanie \|date=May 24, 2020 \|title=Why Trump Falsely Accuses Scarborough Of A Death \|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniesarkis/2020/05/24/why-trump-falsely-accuses-scarborough-of-a-death/#8cc54ffbdced \|work=[[Forbes]]}}</ref> An [[autopsy]] determined that an undiagnosed heart-valve irregularity had caused the 28-year-old to lose consciousness, fall, and hit her head on the edge of a desk the day before.<ref name="nwfdailynews2001" /><ref>{{cite web \|last=Adair \|first=Bill \|date=August 28, 2001 \|title=State: Aide found dead had said she felt ill \|url=http://www.sptimes.com/News/082801/State/Aide_found_dead_had_s.shtml \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016001411/http://www.sptimes.com/News/082801/State/Aide_found_dead_had_s.shtml \|archive-date=October 16, 2008 \|access-date=May 28, 2020 \|work=[[St. Petersburg Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|author=McLaughlin, Tom \|date=August 7, 2001 \|title=Examiner: Klausutis' death was accidental \|url=http://www.nwfdailynews.com/archive/news/01/010807news2.html \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021123202909/http://www.nwfdailynews.com/archive/news/01/010807news2.html \|archive-date=November 23, 2002 \|access-date=May 27, 2020 \|work=[[Northwest Florida Daily News]] \|page=A1}}</ref> Media trafficked in speculation about the death, often connecting it with Scarborough's resignation from Congress, announced in May.<ref name="Salon bogus">{{cite news \|last=Bell \|first=Gabriel \|date=November 29, 2017 \|title=Trump's latest bogus conspiracy theory: Did Joe Scarborough murder his aide? \|url=https://www.salon.com/2017/11/29/trumps-latest-bogus-conspiracy-theory-did-joe-scarborough-murder-his-aide/ \|work=[[Salon.com\|Salon]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last=McLaughlin \|first=Tom \|date=December 11, 2017 \|title=Trump tweet dredges up conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough aide \|url=https://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20171211/trump-tweet-dredges-up-conspiracy-theories-about-joe-scarborough-aide \|publisher=NWF Daily News}}</ref> The claim that Scarborough was involved in the death was promoted by publisher [[Markos Moulitsas]].<ref name="Salon bogus" /><ref>{{cite news \|last=Mirkinson \|first=Jack \|date=June 17, 2015 \|title=Remember When a Dead Intern Was Found in Joe Scarborough's Office? \|url=https://gawker.com/remember-when-a-dead-intern-was-found-in-joe-scarboroug-1711985081 \|publisher=Gawker}}</ref> Since 2017, Trump has resurrected the debunked rumor and has called for another investigation.<ref name="forbes1" /><ref>{{cite news \|last1=Pittman \|first1=Craig \|date=May 24, 2020 \|title=Florida family grieves as Trump spreads debunked conspiracy theory to attack MSNBC host \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/florida-family-grieves-as-trump-spreads-debunked-conspiracy-theory-to-attack-msnbc-host/2020/05/24/8a0a45a6-9dcd-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html \|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last=Moreau \|first=Jordan \|date=May 24, 2020 \|title=Trump Calls for Investigation Into Unfounded Joe Scarborough Murder Conspiracy \|url=https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/trump-joe-scarborough-murder-conspiracy-theory-1234615269/ \|work=Variety}}</ref> The ''[[The Wall Street Journal\|Wall Street Journal]], [[New York Post]], and [[Washington Examiner]]'' have condemned Trump's remarks.<ref>{{Cite magazine \|date=2020-05-27 \|title=Trump's Batshit Joe Scarborough Conspiracy Is Too Much for His Media Allies \|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/donald-trump-media-allies-avoid-joe-scarborough-conspiracy \|access-date=2023-12-20 \|magazine=Vanity Fair \|language=en-US}}</ref> "It's remarkable that we have a president who is trying to have someone prosecute the person he considers to be his chief critic in the media," Scarborough responded in 2020. "That's what [[Vladimir Putin\|Putin]] does. That's what [[Viktor Orban\|Orban]] does. That's what autocrats have been doing for centuries."<ref name="Trump pushes"/> In May 2020, the aide's widower wrote a letter to Twitter's chief executive [[Jack Dorsey]] begging him to delete Trump's tweets saying "President Trump on Tuesday tweeted to his nearly 80 million followers alluding to the repeatedly debunked falsehood that my wife was murdered by her boss, former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough. The son of the president followed and more directly attacked my wife by tweeting to his followers as the means of spreading this vicious lie." [[Kara Swisher]] followed up with an op-ed in ''The New York Times'' on May 26, 2020, calling on Twitter to hold Trump to the company's rules.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Swisher \|first=Kara \|date=May 26, 2020 \|title=Twitter Must Cleanse the Trump Stain \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/opinion/trump-scarborough-twitter.html \|access-date=December 20, 2023 \|website=The New York Times}}</ref> That same day, Twitter began fact-checking Trump's posts and applying warnings to his tweets when they made misleading claims about mail-in voting.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Breuninger \|first=Dan Mangan, Kevin \|date=2020-05-26 \|title=Twitter fact-checks Trump, slaps warning labels on his tweets about mail-in ballots \|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/26/twitter-fact-checks-trump-slaps-warning-labels-on-his-tweets-about-mail-in-ballots.html \|access-date=2023-12-20 \|website=CNBC \|language=en}}</ref>		Trump has also aired "wild allegations and fact-free innuendo"<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2020-05-27 \|title=Trump Pushes a Conspiracy Theory and Falsely Accuses a TV Host of Murder - The New York Times \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/us/politics/klausutis-letter-jack-dorsey.html \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527004424/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/us/politics/klausutis-letter-jack-dorsey.html \|archive-date=May 27, 2020 \|access-date=2023-12-20 \|website=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> stemming from an [[False or misleading statements by Donald Trump#Joe Scarborough murder conspiracy theory\|incident from Scarborough's time in Congress]]. On July 20, 2001, while Scarborough was in [[Washington, D.C.]],<ref name="Trump pushes">{{cite news \|last1=Baker \|first1=Peter \|last2=Astor \|first2=Maggie \|date=May 26, 2020 \|title=Trump Pushes a Conspiracy Theory That Falsely Accuses a TV Host of Murder \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/us/politics/Klausutis-letter-jack-dorsey.html \|access-date=May 27, 2020 \|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|title=McCarthy sidesteps questions on Trump's baseless conspiracy theory involving Joe Scarborough \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/romney-criticizes-trump-for-promoting-conspiracy-theory-standing-out-among-republicans/2020/05/27/88101922-a022-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html \|access-date=May 28, 2020 \|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|date=May 27, 2020 \|title=Romney defends Joe Scarborough, staffer's widower: 'Enough already' \|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/499703-romney-defends-joe-scarborough-widower-enough-already/ \|access-date=May 28, 2020 \|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)\|The Hill]]}}</ref> one of his aides, 28 years old, Lori Bolterstein Klausutis, was found dead on the floor of his congressional office in [[Fort Walton Beach, Florida]].<ref name="nwfdailynews2001">{{cite web \|title=Stories from 2001 related to Scarborough aide Klausutis' death - Fort Walton Beach, FL \|url=https://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20171208/from-archives-stories-from-2001-related-to-scarborough-aide-Klausutis-death \|access-date=May 28, 2020 \|work=Northwest Florida Daily News}}</ref><ref name="forbes1">{{cite news \|last=Sarkis \|first=Stephanie \|date=May 24, 2020 \|title=Why Trump Falsely Accuses Scarborough Of A Death \|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniesarkis/2020/05/24/why-trump-falsely-accuses-scarborough-of-a-death/#8cc54ffbdced \|work=[[Forbes]]}}</ref> An [[autopsy]] determined that an undiagnosed heart-valve irregularity had caused the 28-year-old to lose consciousness, fall, and hit her head on the edge of a desk the day before.<ref name="nwfdailynews2001" /><ref>{{cite web \|last=Adair \|first=Bill \|date=August 28, 2001 \|title=State: Aide found dead had said she felt ill \|url=http://www.sptimes.com/News/082801/State/Aide_found_dead_had_s.shtml \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016001411/http://www.sptimes.com/News/082801/State/Aide_found_dead_had_s.shtml \|archive-date=October 16, 2008 \|access-date=May 28, 2020 \|work=[[St. Petersburg Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|author=McLaughlin, Tom \|date=August 7, 2001 \|title=Examiner: Klausutis' death was accidental \|url=http://www.nwfdailynews.com/archive/news/01/010807news2.html \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021123202909/http://www.nwfdailynews.com/archive/news/01/010807news2.html \|archive-date=November 23, 2002 \|access-date=May 27, 2020 \|work=[[Northwest Florida Daily News]] \|page=A1}}</ref> Media trafficked in speculation about the death, often connecting it with Scarborough's resignation from Congress, announced in May.<ref name="Salon bogus">{{cite news \|last=Bell \|first=Gabriel \|date=November 29, 2017 \|title=Trump's latest bogus conspiracy theory: Did Joe Scarborough murder his aide? \|url=https://www.salon.com/2017/11/29/trumps-latest-bogus-conspiracy-theory-did-joe-scarborough-murder-his-aide/ \|work=[[Salon.com\|Salon]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last=McLaughlin \|first=Tom \|date=December 11, 2017 \|title=Trump tweet dredges up conspiracy theories about Joe Scarborough aide \|url=https://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/20171211/trump-tweet-dredges-up-conspiracy-theories-about-joe-scarborough-aide \|publisher=NWF Daily News}}</ref> The claim that Scarborough was involved in the death was promoted by publisher [[Markos Moulitsas]].<ref name="Salon bogus" /><ref>{{cite news \|last=Mirkinson \|first=Jack \|date=June 17, 2015 \|title=Remember When a Dead Intern Was Found in Joe Scarborough's Office? \|url=https://gawker.com/remember-when-a-dead-intern-was-found-in-joe-scarboroug-1711985081 \|publisher=Gawker}}</ref> Since 2017, Trump has resurrected the debunked rumor and has called for another investigation.<ref name="forbes1" /><ref>{{cite news \|last1=Pittman \|first1=Craig \|date=May 24, 2020 \|title=Florida family grieves as Trump spreads debunked conspiracy theory to attack MSNBC host \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/florida-family-grieves-as-trump-spreads-debunked-conspiracy-theory-to-attack-msnbc-host/2020/05/24/8a0a45a6-9dcd-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html \|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] \|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|last=Moreau \|first=Jordan \|date=May 24, 2020 \|title=Trump Calls for Investigation Into Unfounded Joe Scarborough Murder Conspiracy \|url=https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/trump-joe-scarborough-murder-conspiracy-theory-1234615269/ \|work=Variety}}</ref> The ''[[The Wall Street Journal\|Wall Street Journal]], [[New York Post]], and [[Washington Examiner]]'' have condemned Trump's remarks.<ref>{{Cite magazine \|date=2020-05-27 \|title=Trump's Batshit Joe Scarborough Conspiracy Is Too Much for His Media Allies \|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/donald-trump-media-allies-avoid-joe-scarborough-conspiracy \|access-date=2023-12-20 \|magazine=Vanity Fair \|language=en-US}}</ref> "It's remarkable that we have a president who is trying to have someone prosecute the person he considers to be his chief critic in the media," Scarborough responded in 2020. "That's what [[Vladimir Putin\|Putin]] does. That's what [[Viktor Orban\|Orban]] does. That's what autocrats have been doing for centuries."<ref name="Trump pushes"/> In May 2020, the aide's widower wrote a letter to Twitter's chief executive [[Jack Dorsey]] begging him to delete Trump's tweets saying "President Trump on Tuesday tweeted to his nearly 80 million followers alluding to the repeatedly debunked falsehood that my wife was murdered by her boss, former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough. The son of the president followed and more directly attacked my wife by tweeting to his followers as the means of spreading this vicious lie." [[Kara Swisher]] followed up with an op-ed in ''The New York Times'' on May 26, 2020, calling on Twitter to hold Trump to the company's rules.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Swisher \|first=Kara \|date=May 26, 2020 \|title=Twitter Must Cleanse the Trump Stain \|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/opinion/trump-scarborough-twitter.html \|access-date=December 20, 2023 \|website=The New York Times}}</ref> That same day, Twitter began fact-checking Trump's posts and applying warnings to his tweets when they made misleading claims about mail-in voting.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Breuninger \|first=Dan Mangan, Kevin \|date=2020-05-26 \|title=Twitter fact-checks Trump, slaps warning labels on his tweets about mail-in ballots \|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/26/twitter-fact-checks-trump-slaps-warning-labels-on-his-tweets-about-mail-in-ballots.html \|access-date=2023-12-20 \|website=CNBC \|language=en}}</ref>