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  • 2016-11-14 (xsd:date)
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  • David Brooks: 'Trump Needs to Decide If He Prefers to Resign, Be Impeached or Get Assassinated' (en)
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  • On 12 November 2016, the disreputable web site The Rightists published a hoax news article reporting that New York Times columnist David Brooks said that Donald Trump would 'resign, be impeached, or get assassinated' within the first six months of his presidency: The Rightists is a hybrid web site that publishes stories containing a mixture of true and inaccurate information: In this case, it is true that Brooks wrote a column in which he stated that Trump would probably resign or be impeached within a year. However, the part where Brooks later went on a radio show and said that he forgot to mention assassinated is untrue. While The Rightists claimed that Brooks made his comments on the New York radio station KYRQ, no such station exists in New York, although there is a KYRQ in Natalia, Texas (and since New York is east of the Mississippi River, the call letters of any radio station there would begin with W, not K.) Furthermore, this site is the only source for Brooks' alleged comments. If the New York Times columnist truly had made such inflammatory remarks, there would be more than one obscure web site reporting the story. The Rightists has previously published fake news stories claiming that Joe Biden called American women lazy, that Tim Kaine threatened to ban the Catholic Church from the United States, and that Hillary Clinton said that Donald Trump would make a great president during a 2013 speech. (en)
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