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  • 2016-11-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Donald Trump Said: 'Kiss your Section 8, Welfare and Medicaid Goodbye'? (en)
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  • On 9 November 2016, web site FAMMTV published an article (bearing the unquestionably provocative title: DONALD TRUMP TELL BLACKS KISS YOUR SECTION 8, WELFARE & MEDICAID GOODBYE) which appeared to report that president-elect Donald Trump said he planned to get rid of assistance programs that are purportedly being abused by lazy Americans: The article's lack of any substantiating material should have been a clue that it was not a real story. Had Trump made any sort of divisive or racist assertion of the sort (such as implying that social programs like Section 8 housing exist solely to benefit black people), those comments would have been unquestionably newsworthy in the wake of his upset victory in the 2016 election. United States presidents are not vested with the power to either create or pass laws on their own: FAMMTV features no disclaimer we could find warning their readers that their content is fabricated, and typically spreads cynical, racially-targeted falsehoods. Previous hoax stories published by this outlet include the claim that all unemployed baby mamas would be jailed if they failed to find jobs, that President Barack Obama amended the law to allow the purchase of hot food with SNAP benefits, and that the government targeted black women and their newborns via intentionally tainted epidurals. (en)
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