Posted on 03/10/2020 12:04:36 AM PDT by knighthawk
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was one of several media figures who fell for an infamous fake tweet showing President Trump calling for the punishment of a sitting president if the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,000 points.
Monday marked one of the worst days for the stock market in U.S. history, suffering over a 2,000-point loss due to a battle over oil prices erupted between Saudia Arabia and Russia as well as an escalation in coronavirus fears.
A screenshot of a tweet that appeared to have been written by Trump in 2015 had gone viral.
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However, the tweet was ruled as fake by numerous fact-checkers, including Politifact, when it first surfaced in 2018. Twitter user Shaun Usher, who was the first to share the screenshot, later admitted that he created the fake tweet, expressing, "Not for a second did I think people would believe that to be genuine."
It's all elephantinely irrelevant.
Quoth H. L. Mencken:
“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
Deliverance Banjo Boy is in a continuously bad mood. Not gettin’ any from Zika Virus?
Joe is just another easily duped foot soldier in the democrats' TDS Army.
The more the enemy tries to manipulate the market, the more I want President Donald Trump to fix it.
HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD.
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