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  • 2016-10-13 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Jill Stein Endorse Donald Trump? (de)
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  • On 13 October 2016, the USA Politics Today web site published a clickbait article titled BREAKING: Jill Stein Just ENDORSED Donald Trump! Watch Her Obliterate Hillary! Accompanied by a user-created C-SPAN clip of Stein purportedly endorsing Trump, the article stated: This was a rather slanted interpretation of what was captured in a C-SPAN clip that stemmed from Dr. Stein's 11 October 2016 appearance on that cable network. Stein was actively seeking office as a presidential candidate herself and clearly would not be endorsing another candidate under those circumstances. In fact, Stein in no way endorsed Donald Trump or opined that Donald Trump is better — rather, she said she wouldn't sleep well at night if either Trump or Clinton were elected, asserted that both candidates were promoting lethal policies, and averred it was fortunate [that] we have another choice other than these two candidates. The most positive thing Stein said about Donald Trump was that she found Hillary Clinton's foreign policy to be scarier than his: A subsequent open letter posted to Jill Stein's Facebook page was also widely touted as an example of the Green Party candidate's endorsing Donald Trump, but the post was written by the Social Media Director of the Stein/Baraka campaign (not Stein herself), and it exhorted people to vote against Hillary Clinton (not to vote for Donald Trump): The candidate herself made this point clear in a follow-up tweet (one which referenced this very article): (en)
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