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In early August 2018, amid hearings before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, we began receiving requests from readers to check the veracity of Internet reports stating that Democrats had demanded that Kavanaugh submit to DNA testing. Some of these messages linked to a website promoting the claim that the Democrats were insisting the tests were necessary to prove that President Trump's second SCOTUS nominee literally isn't Adolf Hitler: This article was not literally true, of course. Not a single mainstream news source reported that any such demand was made by Democrats, nor that Sen. Cory Booker said it would be just like this president to choose Hitler. No such discussion can be found in C-SPAN video coverage of the hearings. And if Adolf Hitler were alive today, he would be 129 years old. In point of fact, the article was a work of satire making fun of Democrats' partisan reactions to the appointee's conservative record. This point becomes more and more obvious the further one reads: The spoof originally appeared on the Babylon Bee website, whose disclaimer states that The Babylon Bee Is Your Trusted Source for Christian News Satire.
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