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Trump May Have Been Accidentally Punked By Fox News, Of All Places
Twitter users mock the president after his apparent failure to recognize sarcasm
He also repeated that claim at a rally in Iowa Tuesday night, saying phony protesters were supposed to be paid and now they want to protest because they didnt get paid yet and they want their money.
The only problem?
Trumps claims appear to be based on an off-hand and sarcastic comment made on Fox News.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-paid-protesters_us_5bbd6d7fe4b028e1fe42db5d
J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
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The paid D.C. protesters are now ready to REALLY protest because they havent gotten their checks - in other words, they werent paid! Screamers in Congress, and outside, were far too obvious - less professional than anticipated by those paying (or not paying) the bills!
Jim Johnson
@Reid2Augie
Not paying bills is definitely something Trump knows all about
John Fletcher
@JohnFitz17
No one is paid to protest, people really dont like you.
Patricia Arquette
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If people were Paid Protesters and werent Paid as you say.. Why would they protest again? Oh right! Because none of them were paid or ever expected to be! They did it and will do it because this is their country!
Chris Murphy
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US Senate candidate, CT
This a lie. Like all the others. Dont ever allow this to feel normal. Somebody soon we will have a President doesnt make stuff up out of thin air.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)..."Where is my check from George Soros?"
Trump took that seriously.
calimary
(81,267 posts)The Wizard
(12,545 posts)protesters in the 09 Obamacare debate. They provided transportation and gave them $20 to raise hell at Democratic Congressional town hall meetings.
I was standing in the middle of a group of them shouting that no one but me should have healthcare, and I get mine from the Veterans Administration. They were dumbfounded and couldn't respond.
calimary
(81,267 posts)IronLionZion
(45,442 posts)and he hasn't run out of money yet.
Hugin
(33,147 posts)Baby needs new shoes.
watoos
(7,142 posts)This all stems from a contribution that Soros gave to MoveOn.org years ago and it blew up from there. Meanwhile the Kochs, Mercers, and others are the real bad actors. Republicans are very good at projection.
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)of accusing the oppoition being paid protestors
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)do not register in the Republican reptilian brain. Not the sharpest knives in the drawer. How many successful Republican comedians are there?
pepperbear
(5,648 posts)they do, hook, line, and sinker
unblock
(52,233 posts)the implication is that if he knew it was sarcasm, he would have realized it's not true, and therefore wouldn't have run with the story.
all of that is complete nonsense. since when does donnie care about what's actually true or not? he likes the narrative that anti-donnie protesters are paid, so he's always going to run with that story, facts be damned. he likes ways of extending stories because the first lie becomes more established when you take it for granted while building a second lie on top of it. so he loves the idea that protesters are hired but then weren't actually paid.
it's all transparently false propaganda.