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  • 2016-03-14 (xsd:date)
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  • Bernie Sanders Responds to Critical Trump Tweet (en)
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  • On 11 March 2016 a schedule Chicago rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was canceled after a spate of protests, and a few days later Trump took to Twitter to pin blame for the unrest on supporters of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. That tweet supposedly prompted a scathing retort from Sanders himself: Not long after Trump sent the controversial tweet Twitter and Facebook were awash in shares of what appeared to be a clever retort from Sen. Sanders, reproduced above. In response to Trump's accusation, Sanders purportedly said: On initial inspection, the image of these tweets as presented was suspect. The tweets exhibited slight variations that wouldn't have appeared in genuine screenshots, namely that Sanders' name appeared in bolder print, and the Verified checkmark in his tweet was not to scale when compared with the Trump tweet. The alleged reply tweet also didn't appear on Sanders' with replies Twitter timeline, and the first relevant reference to the controversy wasn't published on that feed until several hours after the 10:30 AM timestamp shown on the image: On 14 March 2016, Sanders tweeted a less specific jab at Republicans, and Trump in particular: So, while the first part of this political meme reproduced a genuine Donald Trump tweet, the purported response from Sanders was fabricated. The senator from Vermont indeed chastised Trump for both his tone and the accusation, but not in a tweet challenging Trump to send [his supporters] to Sanders' rallies. On 12 March 2016, Sanders released an official statement via his web site about the matter: On 15 March 2016, a reader forwarded us what was likely the original source of the meme, which issued from a Twitter account associated with Sanders supporters but not the official Sanders campaign: (en)
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