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  • 2020-04-23 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Former U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy Suggest COVID-19 Was a Conspiracy Against Trump? (en)
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  • In April 2020, multiple Facebook posts reproduced a screed suggesting that the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic was part of some political conspiracy between China and Democrats to unseat U.S. President Donald Trump, attributing the words to Trey Gowdy, a former U.S. representative from South Carolina who chaired the House Oversight Committee and the House Benghazi Committee: However, we found no evidence that this text originated with Gowdy. It had been circulating online for at least a month without attribution before it came to be credited to Gowdy, and Gowdy himself posted a message of his own to Facebook on April 22, 2020, disclaiming authorship of it: Just want to alert folks there is a fraudulent post attributed to me circulating on social media. Not the first time, likely not the last. We have enough going on in our country right now without propagating misinformation. Stay safe and strong. (en)
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