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mahatmakanejeeves

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1. Trump begins by boasting about winning the "man of the year" award in Michigan. It doesn't exist.
Fri May 22, 2020, 12:21 PM
May 2020
Trump begins his speech at a Ford plant by boasting about winning the "man of the year" award in Michigan. There's just one problem -- he totally made it up. There is no such award. https://factcheck.org/2019/08/trumps-dubious-michigan-man-of-the-year-boast/



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In 1918, Henry Ford purchased his hometown newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. A year and a half later, he began publishing a series of articles that claimed a vast Jewish conspiracy was infecting America. https://pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/henryford-antisemitism/



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