UPDATE: @ianbremmer has now admitted that he fabricated this viral Trump quote. And yet it is being shared by journalists and congressmen as if it is real. pic.twitter.com/QgNd9DnN8g
— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) May 26, 2019
Ian – I found some Nancy Pelosi videos on Facebook you're going to absolutely love
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) May 26, 2019
Among the people that fell for it without checking were CNN’s Ana Navarro, a past purveyor of a lot of these fake news stories. And almost 5,000 people retweeted her.
Don’t shrug your shoulders. Don’t get used to this insanity. The President of the United States praising a cruel dictator who violates human rights, threatens nuclear attacks, oppresses his people, and kills political opponents, IS NOT FREAKING NORMAL. https://t.co/RAKvajvGE8
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) May 26, 2019
Ian Bremmer, described as a "foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large at TIME," who therefore operates in some kind of quasi-journalistic capacity, tweeted out a completely fake Trump quote and then has the nerve to feign indignance about people criticizing him for this pic.twitter.com/903dMBN6Pi
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) May 26, 2019
Doctored videos are bad for our republic. Doctored quotes are essential for the resistance. pic.twitter.com/0idkcinWvU
— Thomas Galvin (@ThomasGalvin) May 26, 2019