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  • 2016-11-12 (xsd:date)
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  • Trump's First Order: Anyone Burning an American Flag to Be Charged with Treason (en)
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  • On 11 November 2016, the disreputable Conservative Daily Post web site published an article reporting that Donald Trump would make burning the U.S. flag a treasonous act as his first order as President. The actual text of the article was short on details supporting its clickbait title — Trump's First Order: Anyone Burning an American Flag to Be Charged with Treason — The Conservative Daily Post hinged their argument on a comment Trump reportedly made back in 2015: Conservative Daily Post purposefully misled readers by linking to the same Daily Caller article twice. The first link pointed to comments Trump made about flag-burning in 2015, while the second link purportedly pointed to comments recently made by his new administration team indicating that cracking down on flag-burning would be one of Trump's top priorities as President: Both of these links point to the same article, which was published in September 2015 and does not support the second part of the claim (i.e., that cracking down on flag-burning would be one of Trump's top priorities as President). During a September 2015 interview, then-candidate Trump did say he thought burning the American flag should be illegal: The Conservative Daily Post falsely reported that Donald Trump said that his first act as president would be to make flag burning a treasonous act. However, the president-elect did post on Twitter on 29 November 2016 that those who burned an American flag should face consequences and possibly lose citizenship: (en)
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