President Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen -- AKA "The Fixer" -- is reportedly ready to tell investigators that Trump knew and approved of the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians promising dirt on opponent Hillary Clinton. In response to that real news, social media is flooded with fake stories discrediting Cohen and connecting him to the Clintons.
Here is one such very fake story on a website that specializes in trolling Trump supporters with satrical posts they may fall for as real. We can confirm that Cohen has not been indicted for treason in a conspiracy to sell Trump secrets to Hillary Clinton. It is an article published on July 27, 2018 titled "BREAKING: Michael Cohen Caught On Tape Colluding With Hillary Clinton" (archived here) which opened:
Former Trump attorney and liar, Michael Cohen, was indicted this morning for conspiracy to commit treason after he was caught on tape trying to sell Trump information to the Clinton campaign.
Users on social media only saw this title, description and thumbnail:
BREAKING: Michael Cohen Caught On Tape Colluding With Hillary Clinton
Former Trump attorney and liar, Michael Cohen, was indicted this morning for conspiracy to commit treason after he was caught on tape trying to sell Trump information to the Clinton campaign.
The site comes with a clear satire disclaimer at the bottom of each article:
sat·ire ~ˈsaˌtī(ə)r
noun
the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, OR ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.
If you disagree with the definition of satire or have decided it is synonymous with "comedy," you should really just move along.
The owner and main writer of the site is self-professed liberal troll Christopher Blair, a man from Maine who has made it his full time job to troll gullible conservatives and Trump supporters into liking and sharing his articles. He runs several other websites, including potatriotpost.us, dailyworldupdate.us and nofakenewsonline.us. Sometimes he is also known under his nickname "Busta Troll". A second man working on the sites is John Prager as revealed in this earlier story we wrote.
Articles from Blair's sites frequently get copied by "real" fake news sites who often omit the satire disclaimer and any other hints the stories are fake. Blair has tried to get these sites shut down in the past but new ones keep cropping up and he keeps knocking them down.
If you see one of his stories on a site that does not contain a satire disclaimer, assume it is fake news. If you do see the satire disclaimer it is of course also fake news.
We wrote about americaslastlineofdefense.org before, here are our most recent articles that mention the site:
- Fake News: CNN Did NOT Fire Jake Tapper For Assaulting Eric Trump
- Fake News: Eric Trump Did NOT Get In A Fistfight With A CNN Anchor, NOBODY Went To Jail
- Fake News: Muslim Mayor Did NOT Cancel 4th Of July In Haskentot, Minnesota
- Fake News: President Trump Did NOT Just Fire Muslim Judge Salam al Alsawatha Malallahafa
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