Trump’s Campaign Manager Tweets Link to Fake Website to Claim Protesters Are Paid
Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski— Corey Lewandowski (@CLewandowski_) March 25, 2016
(UPDATE: Corey Lewandowski finally figured out this was a fake story and deleted his tweet — so here’s the screenshot.)
In a rush to smear Donald Trump’s opponents, today campaign manager Corey Lewandowski tweeted a link to an article at one of those “satire” news sites, with a fake story about an anti-Trump protester being paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
This is one of those deceptive sites that tries to trick people into thinking it’s ABC News; notice that the domain name ends with “.co”. They prey on confirmation bias to drive traffic to them and inflate their advertising revenue, and in right wingers they’ve found the perfect naïve, hateful, logic-impaired targets for their scams.
These Trump people are really amazing, and I don’t mean that in a good way. They’re like a dim-witted Breitbart comment section in human form.
Another article at the same fake news site:
Hey @CLewandowski_ will you also tweet out this very-not-fake ABC news story? https://t.co/575KotZbSj pic.twitter.com/LI1AhASn3W
— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) March 25, 2016
Too funny! Raving loon Ann Coulter fell for the same fake news story; she liked it so much she tweeted it twice:
ABC News: Donald Trump Protester Speaks Out: “I Was Paid $3,500 To Protest Trump’s Rally” https://t.co/xKJ17061sY
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 25, 2016
ABC: Paid Trump Protester: “No one still has an AOL email address except people that would vote for Hillary Clinton.”https://t.co/xKJ17061sY
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 25, 2016
(UPDATE: Ann Coulter also finally figured out this was a fake story and deleted her tweets — so here’s the screenshot.)
And so did the fabled Stupidest Man on the Internet, Jim Hoft:
