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On 20 January 2018, the web site reaganwasright.com published an article reporting (somewhat incoherently) that leading Democratic figures -- in addition to billionaire George Soros -- had worlds to gain by effecting a shutdown of the U.S. federal government, and that the shutdown was somehow connected to a Secret Service report warning of a military coup against President Trump: None of this was true, save for the fact that the U.S. government did experience a brief shutdown in January 2018 as Republicans and Democrats wrangled over immigration policy and other issues. The U.S. Secret Service issued no such report, nor did any credible news organization cover such an occurrence. This story originated solely with reaganwasright.com, a site that is part of a network of fake news sites dedicated to spreading political misinformation under the guise of proffering satire.
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