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24. Trump supporter spreads fake news about NC governor, yearbook photo

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Mon Feb 11, 2019, 07:02 PM

Feb 2019

By Rashaan Ayesh , Paul Specht on Friday, February 8th, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.

... About 1:45 pm on Feb. 6, Colin Campbell, editor of the NC Insider, part of The News & Observer, tweeted photos from the 1979 UNC-Chapel Hill yearbook. (PolitiFact NC, which wrote this fact check, is a partnership of PolitiFact and The News & Observer.)

One of the photos shows two white students dressed in white hooded robes like those worn by the Ku Klux Klan. The students are holding onto a noose that was around the neck of another white student, who was covered in blackface makeup.

The photo appeared on a yearbook page for the Chi Phi fraternity. Cooper was in a different fraternity – albeit one with a similar-sounding name – called Chi Psi ...

On Feb. 7 ... "BREAKING: Racist picture of Democrat North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper emerges just days after he called on Ralph Northam to resign - Daily Mail," Wohl tweeted ...

https://www.politifact.com/north-carolina/statements/2019/feb/08/jacob-wohl/trump-supporter-spreads-fake-news-about-nc-governo/

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Now you've done it. You've made Jacob Wohl angry. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2019 OP

Wikipedia goes to extraordinary means to preserve the veracity of their articles Dennis Donovan Feb 2019 #1

Nice try to keep yourself in the news mr wohl. Canoe52 Feb 2019 #2

Tort claim notices aren't generally delivered on Twitter gratuitous Feb 2019 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author NCChomskyan Feb 2019 #4

Welcome to DU! Dennis Donovan Feb 2019 #7

His father is encouraging him. mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2019 #11

That was very funny! WhiteTara Feb 2019 #31

Who that? rogue emissary Feb 2019 #5

Some twit who seems to have committed crimes as a teenager, under his parent's umbrella. TheBlackAdder Feb 2019 #16

Go for it Jake...You don't have to be arrested or charged to be a fraud, look at your 'president' spanone Feb 2019 #6

LOL, the article actually calls him an "American far-right[citation] fraudster[citations]" RockRaven Feb 2019 #8

He DOES know how Wikipedia 'works', doesn't he? This is freakin' laughable ... (nt) mr_lebowski Feb 2019 #9

Awww. Was he one of the billions of snowflakes I've thrown to the curb in the last couple weeks? LakeSuperiorView Feb 2019 #10

Knock yourself out, tough guy. GoCubsGo Feb 2019 #12

Yeah, he's been banned for life in the financial sector. The Truth Is Here Feb 2019 #13

Sound more like he'll be taking a massive dump in his toilet. TheBlackAdder Feb 2019 #14

I bet a nickel that he and his friends edited/re-edited his page to create a controversy blogslut Feb 2019 #15

Don't get mad Jake, Turbineguy Feb 2019 #17

lol bigtree Feb 2019 #18

Hahahahaaa! lunatica Feb 2019 #19

LOL perfect response. nt MH1 Feb 2019 #20

OMG is that hysterical..... Pachamama Feb 2019 #21

Conspiracy theorist Wohl gets moment in spotlight struggle4progress Feb 2019 #22

"Never been arrested or charged for anything " Takket Feb 2019 #23

Trump supporter spreads fake news about NC governor, yearbook photo struggle4progress Feb 2019 #24

This makes my heart smile. Coventina Feb 2019 #25

LOL ck4829 Feb 2019 #26

Troll Reboots Birther Conspiracy for Kamala Harris struggle4progress Feb 2019 #27

Wohl accused of defrauding Arizona investors struggle4progress Feb 2019 #28

The first law of holes, or the law of holes, is an adage which states that mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2019 #36

Why isn't he in jail for trying to frame Mueller? PeeJ52 Feb 2019 #29

Bring it motherfucker TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #30

Lol, he's a dumb psychopath Demonaut Feb 2019 #32

I really love this response to this idiot Gothmog Feb 2019 #33

Rock me Amadumbass Blue Owl Feb 2019 #34

His gym sock must be really tired of his mess n/t ChubbyStar Feb 2019 #35