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On 8 October 2016, WikiLeaks published an archive called The Podesta Emails, involving communications with Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta. Not long after that WikiLeaks dump hit the Internet, multiple Twitter users claimed it documented that Clinton had called progressive voters a bucket of losers during one paid speech: But a search of the WikiLeaks archives shows that only two Podesta e-mails referenced Goldman Sachs, and neither included any wording such as bucket of losers. In fact, the fake transcript appears to have originated as a spoof of Clinton's infamous basket of deplorables comment, published by the political conspiracy-mongering Real. True. News. web site several days prior to WikiLeaks' Podesta Emails dump. Nonetheless, the bogus claim spread quickly and comprehensively online, duping such outlets as InfoWars Gateway Pundit, and Fox News, all of whom reported the hoax story as true: The bucket of losers rumor was one of many fabrications built upon genuine WikiLeaks dumps, along with other false claims such as ones holding that Bernie Sanders would have won the Democratic nomination but was threatened to drop out of the race, and that Hillary Clinton sought to assassinate WikiLeaksfounder Julian Assange via a drone strike.
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