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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    That is definitely what he means and they got a ton of shit for that article because it’s a bunch of “well this didn’t literally happen this specific way so it isn’t true.” That’s why they had to put that note at the beginning.

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      Yeah it’s bullshit. One side was entirely white supremacists because that’s what the Unite the Right rally was