Trump Junior Tries To Bamboozle His Twitter Audience By Pretending An Inaccurate Story From 6 Years Ago Is From Today
Amazing, but not shocking at all anymore. Nearly 200,000 Florida Voters May Not Be Citizens https://www. nbcmiami.com/news/local/Nea rly-200000-Florida-Voters-May-Not-Be-Citizens-151212725.html … via @nbc6
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Trump's tweet is based on a story from 2012, in which initially a Miami television station said there may be 200,000 non citizens on the Florida voting rolls. As it turned out, the number was much smaller.
As the tv station later explained
Editor’s note on Nov. 12, 2018: This story was published in May 2012.
The initial list of 180,000 names was whittled to 2,625, according to the Florida Department of State. The state then checked a federal database and stated it found 207 noncitizens on the rolls (not necessarily voting but on the rolls). That list was sent to county election supervisors to check and it also turned out to contain errors. An Aug. 1, 2012, state elections document showed only 85 noncitizens were ultimately removed from the rolls out of a total of about 12 million voters at that time.
Donald Trump Jr. has repeatedly intiated or passed along "fake news". This parrticular story is believed to have been begun by a conspiracy monger friend of Trump Jr.'s father and also by the right wing activist Charlie Kirk.
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To recap, Donald Trump Jr. passed along a tv news story from 6 years ago and did not identify it as such.
Plus the story did not even support his contention to begin with.
Don Trump Jr. is a despicable person, who tries to manipulate the deplorables, but maybe since he knows he's going to prison anyway, what's a few dozen more lies give or take.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
The headline is fake news bullshit. There is nothing in his tweet about today. If you look at the actual tweet the 2012 date is right there in his tweet.
Amazing, but not shocking at all anymore. Nearly 200,000 Florida Voters May Not Be Citizens https://www. nbcmiami.com/news/local/Nearly-200000-Florida-Voters-May-Not-Be-Citizens-151212725.html… via @nbc6
This is the actual tweet it has 2012 right there for all to see.
I am aware of that. Trump Junior did not tweet the numbers 2012 at all. He tweeted
Amazing, but not shocking at all anymore. Nearly 200,000 Florida Voters May Not Be Citizens
The photo below is added automatically when you put a link to a story in your tweet. It's possible Trump didn't even read what was in the photo.
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Trump Jr tried to fool his twitter readers into thinking 200,000 illegals tried to vote last week.
It is up to his deplorables as to whether or not they fall for his trick.
Newstalkers is rapidly becoming a big waste of time.
Can we go back to 2015 or 2016? There were a lot less useless comments here then.
If Trump KNEW the story was an inaccurate one from six years ago, WHY DID HE TWEET ABOUT IT?
There are those who are trying to turn Newstalkers into an idiocracy.
Don't know it it is intentional or that is just who they are.
I'd rather lock the thread than listen to any more idiocy on it.