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  • 2020-08-18 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Donald Trump Say, ‘If You Elect Joe Biden, I Will Go To Prison’? (en)
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  • A viral Facebook post shared over 6,200 times claims President Donald Trump said, If you elect Joe Biden, I will go to prison. Verdict: False There is no record of Trump ever saying the quote. Fact Check: Trump is a frequent subject of having quotes falsely attributed to him. This particular Facebook post credits the president on Aug. 12 with saying, If you elect Joe Biden, I will go to prison. But there is no record of Trump making the remark. Had he admitted such a thing, media outlets would have assuredly reported on it, yet none have . A search of Trump’s verified Twitter accounts – @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS – turned up no instances of the comment. It does not appear in ProPublica’s archive of the president’s deleted tweets. Check Your Fact also didn’t find the quote in Factbase , an online database that collects Trump’s public statements, or the transcripts from his public remarks on Aug. 12, the day he allegedly made the comment. (RELATED: Image Claims To Show Donald Trump Disparaging Kamala Harris’ Name In A Tweet) The misattributed quote appears to come from an Aug. 2 tweet that quotes him as saying it without any evidence. Trump held a virtual Pennsylvania tele-rally that day, but did not make any mention of going to prison if Biden was elected, according to a transcript from the event. In the comments of the Aug. 2 tweet, the Twitter user clarified that it was satire. (en)
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