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  • 2017-09-28 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Sarah Sanders Give This Snarky Response About Trump's Tax Returns? (en)
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  • Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders frequently made headlines in 2017 in articles both praising and criticizing her performance. So when an anecdote describing a witty exchange Sanders reportedly had with an MSNBC reporter over the location of Trump's tax returns, many viewers mistook it for a genuine news item: However, this exchange never occurred. This item has been circulating via email, internet forums, and social media since at least April 2017 and it was originally attributed to Sanders's predecessor, Sean Spicer: Early iterations of the joke were frequently accompanied by messages indicating that this was a fictional exchange and not a genuine news item: If Sanders (or Spicer) truly did take part in this exchange (which she didn't), she would have been spreading several debunked conspiracy theories about President Trump's predecessor, including the claims that Obama didn't graduate college (he did); that he received financial aid as a foreign student (he did not); that his selective service registration is sealed (it is public); that he visited Pakistan when U.S. citizens were banned from traveling there (he did not); and the oft-touted (and discredited) theory that he was not born in the United States (he was born in Hawaii). We also found no news accounts documenting this nonexistent exchange with Sanders (or Spicer). Since the position of press secretary has been heavily scrutinized during the Trump administration, it is extremely unlikely that such an exchange would have gone unreported. (en)
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