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  • 2020-10-05 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Real Ben Shapiro Tweet About Trayvon Martin Resurface After... (en)
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  • Did a Real Ben Shapiro Tweet About Trayvon Martin Resurface After He Predicted a Lack of Sympathy for Donald Trump’s COVID-19? Claim After Ben Shapiro chastised blue checkmarks who might feel unsympathetic towards President Trump, an old tweet of his demonstrating a lack of sympathy regarding the death of Trayvon Martin resurfaced. Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting News that United States President Donald Trump had fallen ill with COVID-19 broke shortly after 1:00 AM Eastern time October 2 2020. Right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro wasted no time, immediately chiding Twitter’s blue checkmarks (verified users) for their anticipated lack of sympathy: Looking forward to all the kind-hearted expressions of sympathy to Trump and Melania from the blue-checkmark Left. — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 2, 2020 Shapiro wrote: Looking forward to all the kind-hearted expressions of sympathy to Trump and Melania from the blue-checkmark Left. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die That tweet appeared just five minutes after Shapiro first tweeted about the news: Whoa https://t.co/Z0rXJDOGmg — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 2, 2020 Reactions Among responses to Shapiro’s blue checkmarks tweet were screenshots of a purported tweet of his years before in which he expressed little sympathy at the murder of teenager Trayvon Martin. One response was from user @Popehat , and it included no additional commentary — just an image: pic.twitter.com/JLPLK4oLxI — AllowedHatToBelieve (@Popehat) October 2, 2020 Another was from user @xeniaporvida , who commented This you? This you? https://t.co/xcC8oumsGc pic.twitter.com/24saxAS6Mz — ✨🙌🏽$timmy $timulu$t🙌🏽✨ (@xeniaporvida) October 2, 2020 As we’ve noted before, fake Ben Shapiro tweets are not uncommon, nor is confusion over whether Shapiro actually said something attributed to him: Did Ben Shapiro Tweet That He and His Wife Know There Are More Important Things in Marriage Than ‘Sexual Satisfaction’? Shapiro’s ‘Trayvon Martin’ Tweet Both screenshots in the tweets above included a date and timestamp, indicating that Shapiro sent the Trayvon Martin tweet on February 5 2016. We located that tweet, which was live and had not been deleted ( archived here ): Trayvon Martin would have turned 21 today if he hadn't taken a man's head and beaten it on the pavement before being shot. — Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 5, 2016 TL;DR In response to Shapiro’s claim he awaited all the kind-hearted expressions of sympathy to Trump and Melania from the blue-checkmark Left after news of Trump’s diagnosis broke, others responded with screenshots of a tweet attributed to Shapiro. In that tweet, Shapiro expressed a lack of sympathy regarding the death of Trayvon Martin on what would have been his twenty-first birthday. The February 2016 tweet about Trayvon Martin was authentic, unaltered, and accurately reflected in the many screenshots shared in the reply of his second tweet. Posted in Fact Checks , Viral Content Tagged bad tweets , ben shapiro , ben shapiro tweet , donald trump , trayvon martin , viral tweets (en)
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