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My RedState colleague Nick Arama wrote earlier today about how Twitter is now “fact checking” President Trump’s tweets, starting with two he posted on Tuesday about how mail-in ballot voting is ripe for fraud, and has the potential of “rigging” the 2020 presidential election.

As Nick noted, a number of high-profile conservatives fact checked Twitter in response, debunking their erroneous claim that Trump’s statements about voting by mail were “unsubstantiated.”

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was another who pushed back hard against Twitter’s dismissal of Trump’s remarks on mail-in ballots, posting a series of tweets on the issue. Here are a few of them:

In NV, excess ballots sent to inactive voters piled up in Las Vegas trash cans.

“What’s going to happen w/ these things, they’re NOT SECURED at all & there are THOUSANDS of them just sitting here. This just seems fraudulent to me, something stinks here.” https://t.co/r4IWQpQWDb

— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) May 26, 2020

The @postandcourier reported that mail-in ballots from South Carolina turned up in Maryland.

Even more, voters in Greenville County received wrong absentee ballots in the mail earlier this year.https://t.co/z42iHPnVTh

— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) May 26, 2020

Just LAST WEEK, @TheJusticeDept announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office & FBI in Philadelphia secured a guilty plea of an elections judge, who admitted to accepting

BRIBES

FOR

BALLOTS. https://t.co/9At5ZcAXRd

— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) May 26, 2020

A bipartisan commission led in-part by former President Jimmy Carter (a Democrat) concluded that mail-in ballots “remain the LARGEST SOURCE of potential voter FRAUD.” 👇 https://t.co/hmfWn2W0VC

— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) May 27, 2020

In 27 states, a voter can designate someone else to turn in their ballot.

This practice leads to BALLOT HARVESTING.

For example, the registrar in Orange County, CA “reported in 2018 that his office had ‘people dropping off maybe 100 or 200 ballots.’” https://t.co/g4pdA9EkW9

— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) May 27, 2020

.@TexasTribune reported Dallas officials “sequestered” 700 “suspicious ballots” after “off the charts” complaints.

✳️ Voters received UNSOLICITED mail-in ballots.

✳️ A grand jury INDICTED a man for using someone else’s mail-in ballot to vote.https://t.co/3rDp8RIiBF

— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) May 27, 2020

Naturally, this triggered “journalists” like Tampa Bay Times political editor Steve Contorno, who rushed to find out whether or not McEnany has ever voted by mail. As it turns out, she has – which was more than enough for other reporters to declare Contorno’s find as a “great catch” (read: “gotcha”):

New: Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has voted by mail 11 times in 10 years, but she now insists that voting by mail is rife with fraud. Great catch by @scontorno https://t.co/MNmC79kA8w

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) May 27, 2020

Except …. was it?

It's literally not the exact same thing.

Because you're not requesting the ballot (as in absentee voting). It's just being mailed to you. https://t.co/5BlsOGLlLP

— RBe (@RBPundit) May 27, 2020

You can do the same. Just request an absentee ballot. Ir's easy.

This is entirely different than mailing ballots to every voter on the rolls that haven't been cleaned up in decades.

My parents left the state 7 years ago, still registered at my address. I'll get 3 ballots.

— alrightythen (@jeeezelouise) May 27, 2020

Absentee voting is one thing. The universal vote by mail being pushed now is a whole another level of crap and you and everyone who is pushing it knows it.

— Jay (@OneFineJay) May 27, 2020

She’s been at Harvard Law School and working political jobs in Washington DC. But other than that—huge scoop here. https://t.co/lpPX3vUrDS

— Ben Williamson (@_WilliamsonBen) May 27, 2020

If you cant see the difference between a person requesting vote by mail and just mass mailings of ballots based on voter rolls you aren't smart enough to have this discussion

— Grandpa Scott (@grandpa_scott) May 27, 2020

Last one nailed it.

BTW, McEnany did issue a statement in response to the “report” on her voting habits:

“Absentee voting has the word absent in it for a reason. It means you’re absent from the jurisdiction or unable to vote in person. President Trump is against the Democrat plan to politicize the coronavirus and expand mass mail-in voting without a reason, which has a high propensity for voter fraud. This is a simple distinction that the media fails to grasp.”

Our media firefighters either do not know the difference between a voter actually requesting a ballot be mailed to them vs. the state just mass mailing ballots to the names and addresses on their voter rolls, or do know the difference but are deliberately conflating the two anyway because Orange Man Bad.

Either way, it’s not a good look, and it most certainly is not “journalism.”