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On 17 May 2017, a web site called Donald Trump Today published a fake news article appearing to report that former U.S. President Bill Clinton had filed for divorce from former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. The majority of this article focused on rehashed rumors, all of which were either debunked, untrue, or unfounded, about the Clinton family before adding one single sentence about the purported divorce: Bill Clinton did not file for divorce from Hillary Clinton in May 2017. If this were true it would be front page news on nearly every web site and newspaper in the United States. Yet, we only found mention of this rumor on disreputable web sites such as Donald Trump Today and The New York Evening, a site that also traffics in fake news. Furthermore, this article is full of baseless and previously debunked claims, such as Bill Clinton having a love child named Danney Williams (unproven), that Williams was found dead of a suicide (false), and that the Clinton's have left a rash of bodies in an attempt to cover up their alleged crimes (false and false and false and false). Donald Trump Today also carried a disclaimer stating that they did not stand behind the accuracy of their reporting: This is not the first time that unfounded divorce rumors have circulated about the Clintons. Shortly after Hillary Clinton lost her bid for the presidency, a hoax article reported that she had filed for divorce.
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