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librarylu

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9. He should release his taxes
Fri Aug 26, 2016, 09:41 AM
Aug 2016

because it's customary, not to quell unfounded allegations. Did you read Snopes?

"A Reddit moderator who goes by 'Faiz' and claims to have helped launch the bot told us that he believes it turns Trump's own manner of generating suspicions against his opponents against him:

We didn't expect it to take off like this, but the community effort on EnoughTrumpSpam really helped it go viral. The joke spread off Reddit and began confusing people so much so that some news outlets even began picking the story up. I think it's success is, in a way, emblematic of the way Trump spreads lies and gets people to believe them by constantly repeating them.

A random user originally posted the block of text and it became instantly popular on Reddit. We all loved it because of how much it imitated Trump's style of making unsubstantiated accusations. You really can't tell the difference between some of the text in the meme and some things Trump wrote during Obama's birther conspiracy.

As for why Trump, we picked it up mostly because, as suggested by the name (EnoughTrumpSpam), we are an anti-Trump community and we found this to be a perfect foil to highlight the way Trump spreads conspiracy theories."

IMO spreading this is as bad as RW posters speading those fake "Records" claiming Hillary has a brain disease.

We go high when they go low, right?

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