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On 16 November 2019, the MoronMajority.com website published an article positing that President Trump had posthumously pardoned notorious 1960s criminal Charles Manson, who passed away in prison in 2017 while serving out a life sentence: This item was not a factual recounting of real-life events. The article originated with a website that describes its output as being humorous or satirical in nature, as follows: The purpose of moronmajority.com is to illuminate important political issues through humor and satire. The MoronMajority.com article was reposted to the Daily Kos political website without the tagging and disclaimers identifying it as satire, and the following month author and presidential candidate Marianne Williamson reportedly tweeted (and then deleted) an outraged response to it as if it were a real news article:
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