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In mid-November 2021, Snopes readers asking about the veracity of a rumor circulating on social media that former U.S. President George W. Bush had been arrested by U.S. military forces. The rumor is similar to previous false claims originating years prior. For example, readers sent screenshots from the conspiracy website Real Raw News, which contains the headline of a story published on that site on Nov. 15, 2021: The Real Raw News story about Bush getting arrested at his ranch in Texas is dramatic, cinematic, and fanciful. But there's no truth to it, and it is purely a work of fiction. The story reads, in part: The the Bush got arrested rumor is a persistent internet hoax. In 2014, Snopes debunked an internet rumor claiming Bush was arrested for cocaine possession, and a similar false story in 2004 claiming Bush had been arrested in Canada for alleged war crimes. The 43rd president and his wife, Laura Bush, were seen Nov. 7, 2021, participating in the coin toss before the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos game at AT&T Stadium in Arlington. He was also a speaker on Nov. 9, 2021, in Erie, Pennsylvania, for the Jefferson Educational Society's Global Summit.
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