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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: arno who wrote (1083076)8/14/2018 5:15:47 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (3) of 1579253
 
The Forrestal fire story was made up by lying Trumpers.

snopes.com
truthorfiction.com

There are other websites that debunk this claim too.

,,,,Beginning in August 2017 and well into the fall, a series of pro-Trump fake news web sites took aim at the reputation of Trump administration critic Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by regurgitating an old, fabricated account of what caused a catastrophic fire aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in 1967. The naval disaster killed 134 sailors and injured 161—one of those survivors was McCain himself, who sustained minor injuries.

The web sites, several of which also defamed McCain as having been “a ‘rat’ or ‘stoolie’” during his five-and-a-half years of captivity as a POW in North Vietnam, laid out details claiming McCain was “personally responsible” for the deadly conflagration on the deck of the Forrestal. .....


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