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And just in case you think he meant Snopes, he did not. He said Snopes and then a separate website that he's never heard of before since he just made it up called Snoops.

“She talked about the Charlottesville hoax,” Trump said while complaining that the debate moderators did not fact-check Harris. “And these people did nothing about it, which has been totally debunked, as they say, by Snopes and snoops and everybody else. Hey, go look it up. Go to snoops, whatever the hell that is. No, I hear that’s a liberal site and they came out totally in favor of me. That’s got to be a bad thing, but they said they gave you a total phony stories.”

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-urges-supporters-to-visit-nonexistent-site-go-to-snoops-whatever-the-hell-that-is/

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[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My great aunt also called it Snoops, and it irked me that she saw the logo a million times and never once questioned her pronunciation.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But he's not even calling Snopes that name. He's saying it's a completely different website!

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, somehow I glazed over that part.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That's what elevates this from stupid mistake to weird.