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In June 2022, the word stollen — a traditional German fruitcake — briefly trended on Twitter, as social media users enthusiastically shared what appeared to be screenshots of an official statement by former U.S. President Donald Trump in which he described the 2020 presidential election as rigged and stollen. Those screenshots were authentic. On June 19, Trump really did publish a post that included the typo stollen instead of the word stolen. Our rating is Correct Attribution. The statement was posted to Twitter by various users, including Trump critics such as Keith Olbermann. In it, Trump appeared to go on a rant about the public hearings being conducted, at that time, by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by the then-president's followers. Trump wrote: Since Trump was suspended from Facebook and Twitter in 2021, internet users have at times struggled to figure out whether a statement attributed to him was, in fact, authentic. Consequently, the fake Trump statement has become its own genre of misinformation, which Snopes has addressed on numerous previous occasions. However, in this instance the viral screenshots were authentic, and the stollen typo was real. Trump posted the statement to his TruthSocial account on June 19. It was also re-posted to his official website, later the same day, adding further proof of its authenticity
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