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An image shared on Facebook claims President Donald Trump tweeted, Washed up Hollywood nobodies tried to trick America’s great Mayor Rudy but FAILED! Verdict: False There is no record of Trump tweeting or deleting the remark. The tweet appears to be fabricated. Fact Check: The image appears to show a screen grab of a tweet about Trump’s personal lawyer and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani that Trump allegedly deleted. The full tweet reads: Washed up Hollywood nobodies tried to trick America’s great Mayor Rudy but FAILED! He was with a woman (young) and tucked in his shirt, which I have done many times. Don’t listen to the Fake News! It was a TUCK! Check Your Fact searched Trump’s verified Twitter accounts — @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS — but found no matches. ProPublica’s archive of his deleted tweets also doesn’t show anything resembling the tweet. Had Trump sent such a tweet, it would have likely garnered media attention. The tweet appears to be fabricated. (RELATED: Did Trump Tweet, ‘The Fly That Landed On Vice President Pence’s Head Will Be Deported’?) The tweet seems to reference a scene featuring Giuliani in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, a mockumentary starring Sacha Baron Cohen and centering on the real-life adventures of a fictional Kazakh television journalist named Borat, per IMDb . In the scene, Giuliani follows an actress impersonating a reporter into a hotel room rigged with hidden cameras, reclines on the bed and reaches towards his pants, according to The New York Times . Cohen, disguised as Borat, runs in and says: She’s 15. She’s too old for you. Giuliani denied in a series of tweets that any indiscretion occurred, saying, The Borat video is a complete fabrication. I was tucking in my shirt after taking off the recording equipment. At no time before, during, or after the interview was I ever inappropriate. If Sacha Baron Cohen implies otherwise he is a stone-cold liar.
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