“Former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social and addressed claims about his use of a microphone, saying “I was pretending to eat a corn dog.”
Social media posts
Threads. Claim dated 3 Nov 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
This post began on a parody account and is labeled as satire, but some social media users cropped out the disclaimer.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 3 November 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 November 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://ghostarchive.org/archive/yLyst
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