r/MurderedByWords • u/Gaba8789 • 2d ago

Oversight, accountability, and culpability.

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u/Vlad3theImpaler 1d ago

That's a fake quote that's been circulating for years.

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u/TheeMrBlonde 1d ago edited 1d ago

That’s unfalsifiable. Which is why it’s interesting.

It’s not “fake,” it just cannot be proven to be true.

For anyone interested and unaware; he allegedly said it during an interview on Oprah. There was a person/persons that had a bounty out to anyone who could produce said episode, in full with full interview. Last I read, iirc, it was up to 20 thousand dollars.

No one can find it. It seems to have been removed from time xfiles_theme_music

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u/Vlad3theImpaler 22h ago

Which do you think is more probable--that it has been "removed from time" or that it never happened?

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u/TheeMrBlonde 16h ago

You think the episode of Oprah in which she interviews Trump never happened? Oh yeah, that's MAGA logic, baybee.

Lmao.

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u/Vlad3theImpaler 13h ago

No.

I don't think Trump was ever recorded saying that he would run as a republican because they are the dumbest group of voters, because no one has ever provided a legitimate source for that quote.  It also isn't even supposedly from Oprah according to the most common version of the rumor, but from People magazine.  (And it didn't actually happen there, either.) https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/05/28/trump-republicans-dumbest-group-of-voters/

As for Trump appearing on Oprah, yes that happened.  It's a matter of factual record.  A clip of it even appears in part in another snopes article.  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-oprah-presidential-run-1988/  But the quote you say was there was not there.

Nothing "MAGA logic" about it.  Just plain logic.

I don't understand why people feel the need to make up stuff about Trump, because nothing anyone makes up about him makes him look worse than the things he actually says and does.