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  • 2021-01-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Was a 'Trump Does the Unthinkable' Op-Ed Written by Liz Crokin? (en)
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  • A lengthy Facebook post supposedly written by Liz Crokin that recounted the various good deeds performed by Donald Trump before he became president of the United States is frequently circulated on social media. The post starts: This opinion piece was truly written by Crokin. The original article was published on the conservative website Townhall in July 2016. There are a few small changes between the viral Facebook posts and the original article — for instance, the Townhall version includes a different introductory sentence — but the Facebook version is largely a verbatim reproduction of the Townhall piece. It should be noted that while Crokin may have been accurately described as an entertainment journalist when this piece was first published in 2016, she has spent the last few years supporting and spreading QAnon conspiracy theories. Furthermore, the content of this piece contains a mixture of truth and fiction. We've covered many of the topics mentioned in Crokin's opinion piece in further detail in the following investigations regarding Trump's alleged good deeds: So You Think You Know the Real Donald Trump? and Donald Trump’s ‘Quiet Acts of Random Kindness.’ While some of the stories about Trump's good deeds are undeniably true (Trump truly lent his personal plane to the family of a 3-year-old in need of urgent medical care), these lists also often contain falsehoods. In Crokin's piece, for example, she included a false story about Trump sending his personal plane to rescue 200 stranded marines in 1991, and another fictitious anecdote about Trump paying off a person's mortgage after they helped him when he was having car trouble. To sum it up: A former entertainment journalist and current QAnon conspiracy theorist penned an article in 2016 entitled Trump Does the Unthinkable that contained a mixture of true and false stories about various good deeds allegedly performed by Trump before his presidency. (en)
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