The Republican Party is really reeling in the fake black people

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100% of fake black people support The Republican Party

This Russian bot post is easily dismissed, and your initial instinct is to think that nobody could possible buy the claims therein – until you realize that it was re-tweeted by the wife of a Supreme Court justice! It demonstrates how eager people are to see confirmation of their beliefs.

(I believe that this is an aspect of human nature, and not a form of behavior specifically limited to the right wing. In my observations, the left is just as gullible. Case in point: the “we don’t tip terrorist” hoax.)

Trump will talk to Mueller as long as they don’t ask any hard questions

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Trump will talk to Mueller as long as they don’t ask any hard questions

As a reflection of the age in which we live, it is no longer possible to tell the difference between real stories and the mockery of The Onion.

This one is real.

They basically would only be allowed to ask him how his golf game is going.

Trump will not answer any questions about obstruction of justice. Needless to say, that’s why they want to talk to him in the first place. There is (to my knowledge) no evidence that candidate Trump colluded directly with Russian agents, but there was the letter he dictated (and initially denied dictating through Sarah Sanders), his pressure on Sessions not to recuse himself, as well as the Comey firing and his stated reasons for doing so.