GOP senator confronted with fake quote Trump claimed he said
Source: Alternet.org · Bias: Left
Summary
President Donald Trump posted a quote on Truth Social on Monday night attributed to Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) that claimed former President Barack Obama was part of an illegal Obamacare moneymaking scheme.But NOTUS reports the claim is baseless and without worth. Worse still, Kennedy says he never said anything like it.“Somebody told me there was something floating around on the internet about me accusing President Obama of stealing $120 million or something,” Kennedy told NOTUS. “I didn’t say that. I don’t know the basis of it.”The president’s post was part of a flurry of social media submissions Trump filed throughout the night, beginning with a posted 400-word attack against The New York Times at 1:12 a.m..A tally of the posts suggest Trump may have slept little more than 5 hours Monday night.One CNN fact-checker labeled the tirade “detached from reality.”“It’s hard to explain just how detached from reality President Trump’s conspiracy-theory-filled social media posting spree last night and this morning was,” wrote CNN’s Daniel Dale, pointing out that Trump’s fake Kennedy quote “originated with a ‘satire’ website, basically a fakery factory, that invents stories to be shared by online conservatives.”
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