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Fake editions of The Washington Post handed out at multiple locations in D.C.
By Emily Heil and Paul Farhi
January 16 at 11:16 AM
Fake editions of The Washington Post claiming that President Trump was leaving office were handed out Wednesday morning at multiple locations in Washington, D.C.
The print papers -- which at a quick glance look strikingly similar to actual copies of The Post -- were filled with anti-Trump stories, which also appeared on a website that mimicked the official Post site.
The Post's PR department released a statement on Twitter: "There are fake print editions of The Washington Post being distributed around downtown DC, and we are aware of a website attempting to mimic The Post's. They are not Post products, and we are looking into this."
Under the headline "Unpresidented," the fake newspaper's lead story said that Trump had left a resignation message on a napkin in the Oval Office and left Washington for Yalta, the famous Crimean resort as the site of a meeting of Allied heads of state during World War II.
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Emily Heil is the co-author of the Reliable Source and previously helped pen the In the Loop column with Al Kamen. Follow
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