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In July 2019, a website run by a notorious producer of junk news and inflammatory misinformation made an unhelpful contribution to the ongoing controversy surrounding allegations of racism and xenophobia against U.S. President Donald Trump, after Trump suggested progressive Democrat Congresswomen of recent immigrant heritage should go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came, then come back and show us how it is done. It was widely understood that Trump's tweets were a reference to a group of four members of Congress — U.S. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York), Ilhan Omar (Minnesota), Rashida Tlaib (Michigan) and Ayanna Pressley (Massachussetts.) The fact that all four women are U.S. citizens and only one (Omar) was born outside the country prompted widespread criticism of Trump's remarks as racist and xenophobic. Against that fraught background, the website TatersGonnaTate.com published an article that claimed the Trump administration had 'started deportation proceedings' against Ocasio-Cortez and Omar, reporting that: In reality, that article was a fabrication. The source is part of a network of sites and social media accounts operated by Christopher Blair, who produces a high volume of junk news and misinformation, much of it inflammatory, which he presents as satire. Rudy Giuliani is a personal attorney to Trump, not the White House Counsel (a position held by Pat Cipollone as of July 2019). Giuliani did not make the remarks attributed to him in the article, and Trump has not signed an executive order which says that disrespect for the office [of president] is grounds for treason and/or removal from the country. Finally, Art Tubolls is not a spokesperson for the Justice Department. That name is in fact a moniker used by Blair in multiple articles, and an anagram of Busta Troll, one of Blair’s favorite online aliases.
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