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In September 2020, the website ObamaWatcher published an article positing that former President Barack Obama said that legally, an impeached president can't appoint judges: This item was not a factual recounting of real-life events. The article originated with a website that describes its output as being humorous or satirical in nature, as follows: The spoof appears to have fooled a number of left-leaning Twitter users, some of whom shared it with comments echoing statements from the article, such as: According to Obama... US Constitution Article 11, Section 5 denies any person elected to the Presidency and then consequently legally impeached by the Congress, all power of appointment. The U.S. Constitution only has seven articles. For background, here is why we sometimes write about satire/humor.
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