Reporters Fall for Fake Document of Trump Making Absurd Demands in Israel

Washington Free Bacon ^ | 05/22/2017 | Alex Griswold

[ForYourChildren]

Reporters on Monday fell for a fake "White House" document that supposedly showed President Donald Trump making unusual demands of his Israeli hosts during his trip abroad.

The Twitter account Rogue White House Senior Advisor on Friday shared what it claimed was Trump's demands ahead of a trip to Israel, including roughly a metric ton of sugary and non-kosher junk food.

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Some elements of the purported demands were obvious jokes. The demand that microwaves remain unplugged was a mocking reference to White House advisor Kellyanne Conway's bizarre comment that the appliance could be used for spying, and the request for electoral maps to be posted on each walls mocked Trump's tendency to allude to his victory.

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Other reporters at the Jerusalem Post, Business Insider, the Nation, NBC News, the Washington Post, and Mother Jones soon shared Ahronheim's tweet.

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One of the reporters to retweet Ahronheim was Glenn Kessler, editor of the Washington Post‘s Fact-Checker blog.

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[MarkL]

A local restaurant used to have a BLT on their menu that started off with an entire, 1 pound (uncooked) package of bacon on the sandwich. They used to call it the Blt (imagine a font size about 2x larger for the 'B' than the "lt."

Mark

[TBP]

Seems like they’re biting on a lot of planted stories lately.

Hmmmm...

[Interesting Times]

One of the reporters to retweet Ahronheim was Glenn Kessler, editor of the Washington Post‘s Fact-Checker blog.

That tells you everything you need to know about the leftist "fact checkers."

[ForYourChildren]

One of the reporters to retweet Ahronheim was Glenn Kessler, editor of the Washington Post‘s Fact-Checker blog.

That tells you everything you need to know about the leftist “fact checkers.”

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That’s why I added that snippet.

Irony too rich.

[Interesting Times]

Nicely done.

[VanShuyten]

I’m glad they figured out it was a hoax before the morning news cycle, although I suspect Joy Behar and all the other morning empty heads still believe.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 5/22/2017. Thanks ForYourChildren.

One of the reporters to retweet Ahronheim was Glenn Kessler, editor of the Washington Post‘s Fact-Checker blog.