10 Popular Political Photo Memes That Are Totally Bogus

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

 2. Dumbest Group of Voters

Widely-circulated photo meme that falsely claims president-elect Donald Trump once said that Republicans are 'the dumbest group of voters in the country.'
Widely-circulated photo meme that falsely claims president-elect Donald Trump once said that Republicans are "the dumbest group of voters in the country." | (Photo: Facebook / Other 98%)

Not long after Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president in 2015, the Facebook group The Other 98% posted a photo meme purporting to quote a 1998 interview Trump did with People Magazine.

Meant to be a smear of both Republican Primary voters and conservative information outlets like Fox News, Factcheck.org was one of many sites to debunk the meme.

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"We scoured the People magazine archives and found nothing like this quote in 1998 or any other year," noted the site back in November 2015.

"And a public relations representative with People told us that the magazine couldn't find anything like that quote in its archives, either."

 

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