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On 8 August 2015, the web site Internet Chronicle published an article reporting that Donald Trump's ex-wives had disclosed the Republican presidential candidate had pressured them into undergoing unwanted abortions: This article didn't garner much attention when it was first published in August 2015, but when a major controversy was triggered by Trump's remarking that women should face some sort of punishment for having abortions (if the procedure were illegal) when MSNBC interviewer Chris Matthews posed a hypothetical question to him (a comment Trump tried to dial back), the Internet Chronicle article began circulating anew and much more widely. There was no truth to the report, however. The Internet Chronicle is a fake news web site that does not publish factual stories. While the web site does not explicitly state that its content is fabricated news, the site's About Us section makes the humorous nature of the Internet Chronicle clear:
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