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  • 2016-09-08 (xsd:date)
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  • No, Obama Did Not Confirm He Will Refuse to Leave Office if Trump Wins (en)
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  • A 6 September 2016 article on the web site The Burrard Street Journal claimed President Obama told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview that in the best interests of our nation, he'll refuse to leave office if GOP candidate Donald Trump is elected President: The article was widely shared via social media by two separate constituencies, each for its own different, yet related, reason. One reason is that it taps into an undercurrent of paranoia that resurfaces every four years based on the fear that an incumbent president will circumvent the democratic process and defy the Constitution in order to avoid having to relinquish power. Two, it's a passably amusing spoof of that conspiracist mentality. As we've had occasion to observe previously, The Burrard Street Journal doesn't publish real news. As stated on its disclaimer page, the web site's content is purely satirical: (en)
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