MAGA fooled by satirical report shared by Trump that seems to back election 'conspiracy'

Donald Trump Friday shared a report apparently backing his 2020 election fraud claims and including the phrases “orchestrated efforts,” a “conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes,” and “Trump was right.”

Truth Social followers were quick to reply with memes and messages accusing President Joe Biden and Democrats of corrupt election interference and political witch hunts linked to the former president's multiple criminal court cases.

There’s just one problem: the article was satire.

The Time Magazine article by reporter Molly Ball details quiet efforts to protect voter rights, maintain the peace during elections and ensure all eligible Americans were able to cast ballots.

“Trump was right” that something “strange” was going on, writes Ball. She then explains what the phenomenon was: “An informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans…to keep the peace and oppose Trump’s assault on democracy.”

Norm Eisen weighed in on Ball’s report, saying, “The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation.”

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But this is not the impression left with Trump’s followers after he shared the following:

Molly Ball, Time Magazine: “To the President, something felt amiss. ‘It was all very, very strange,’ Trump said on Dec. 2. ‘Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted.’ In a way, Trump was right. There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes…Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies…”

Replies to Trump's message include memes of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with devil horns, Biden with a “guilty” stamp on his forehead, former President Barack Obama declared “enemy of the state.”

His followers contend the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was orchestrated by Democrats, that Trump won the 2020 election, and that a ruling class is out to take away their freedoms.

“J6 was never insurrection,” writes Truth Social user Jean Mars. “The people did not have any weapons or firearms on them at the rally. It was the coordinated orchestrated coup headed by Pelosi Democrats and RINOs that stole the election of 2020.”

One savvy follower appears to understand that Ball’s piece disputes these claims with reported fact, but he argued she too was part of a bigger plot.

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“They can write all of The Atlantic Monthly and New Yorker clever, glib little essays about ‘Donald Trump is a threat to democracy,' and their little Molly Ball in Time Magazine essays how clever and brilliant they were with their cabals and conspiracies to get rid of him.”

But user @WolfHounds227 didn’t seem even to understand the article wasn’t new, but published in 2021.

“The new year is off to a strong start with numerous Truths surfacing and more questions to be asked,” Trump’s follower wrote. “WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”