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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1028648)8/23/2017 3:01:48 PM
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Are you ready to admit that you got GRUBERED again? More FAKENEWS for the brain dead freaks!

USA Today runs by the
fake news story playbook


You’ve heard it out there. You know the story already. USA Today “broke” it in a huge scoop on Monday: “Exclusive: Secret Service depletes funds to pay agents because of Trump’s frequent travel, large family.” That’s yuuuge. Trump is bankrupting America! America, d*mn it! “The Secret Service,” the explosive lead said, “can no longer pay hundreds of agents it needs to carry out an expanded protective mission — in large part due to the sheer size of President Trump’s family and efforts necessary to secure their multiple residences up and down the East Coast.” (Snip)

CNN got all wee-weed up with the “exclusive”: “Secret Service can’t pay agents for Trump and his family, report says.” Lots of other mainstream media outlets followed the salacious story — Trump and his family are bankrupting America!

But it turns out the whole story was just plain old fake news

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So, wait, it’s NOT Trump? It’s been happening for “nearly a decade” — so, uh, starting in, oh, say, 2009, 2010? When Barack Obama was president.

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