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On the presidential campaign trail in September 2016, Hillary Clinton handed Donald Trump an easy talking point with her now infamous description of some of his voters as racist, sexist, and homophobic deplorables. She has at times used somewhat similar language in analyzing her defeat. Speaking at an event in India in March 2018, Clinton contrasted her electoral success in optimistic, diverse and economically productive regions, with all that red in the middle [of the United States] where Trump's 'backwards-looking' message of won the day. In May 2018, America's Last Line of Defense — a notorious purveyor of fake news and satire — posted a meme which appeared to show Clinton going even further in her condemnation: In reality, Clinton has never said this. She didn't say it at the University of California, Berkeley in May 2018, because she didn't speak there in May 2018. We could find no record of her, or anyone else, making this statement anywhere or at any time. The quotation appears to have been fabricated from scratch by America's Last Line of Defense, a Facebook page run by Christopher Blair, a notorious purveyor of fake news who uses several pseudonyms and operates a network of web sites including As American As Apple Pie and Freedum Junkshun, all of which claim to produce satire.
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