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President Trump tonight: "We had somebody get on a plane... it was almost completely loaded with thugs, wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms."

Viral Facebook rumor from June: "At least a dozen males got off the plane in Boise from Seattle, dressed head to toe in black."
This appears to be an extension of the viral "Antifa is coming to the suburbs" trope that went wildly viral on Facebook and text messages in June.

The Idaho Statesman and Payette County Sheriff's office debunked this specific viral rumor.

h/t @DoktorZoom
idahostatesman.com/news/local/art…
This stuff was everywhere months ago. Not sure how this specific wild rumor reappeared in the president's information diet three months later to the day, but it's not surprising.

Rumors of Antifa marauding through the suburbs were viral in every state.

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Some more details here:

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NEW + exclusive:

Viral pro-Trump tweets came from fake African American spam accounts, Twitter says

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Pro-Trump Twitter accounts posing as African Americans claimed they were Democrats until a month ago.

Several of these posts had over 10,000 retweets.

Turns out their profile pictures were a stock photo and a Dutch model who had nothing to do with it.
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Here's @KRON619, an African-American who was brand new to the Trump train.

He's been a "Dem my whole life" until "I finally saw their racism." Over 12,000 retweets.

Turns out he's a stock photo.

nbcnews.com/tech/security/…
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I'm talking with @mathewi and @BrandyZadrozny about QAnon right now.

Here's how I think we need to look at it in the next few months, and how we can best shine a light on a menace.

galley.cjr.org/public/convers…
When it comes to QAnon, we have to get out of the mindset that if it's on the internet it's not important.

This stuff is our politics now, even if I wish it wasn't. Let's get over the shock of how bad it is and deal with it.

People with radicalized friends don't have a choice.
Here's why QAnon's takeover of fringe communities is a public health threat, and how its danger can't be neatly presented in a rapsheet or a bodycount.
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This should create a pretty good barometer for which congresspeople believe they need Q support in the future.

It will also be immediately be followed by the What About Antifa Act, but that's to be expected.
That was fast.
Can't stress enough how flagrantly antisemitic QAnon is, by the way. There are the common tropes, like repeatedly insisting the Rothschilds run the world, the persistent blood libel references, the idea the Pope is run by Jewish world leaders.

But there's also stuff like this.
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