Trump is drowning in the misinformation swamp he helped create | CNN Business

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The Republican nominee for president went on live TV and presented an unhinged, debunked Facebook rumor as fact. When corrected (several times) by a moderator, Donald Trump doubled down: “The people on television say their dog was eaten by the people that went there.”

“They’re eating the dogs,” quickly became a punchline among commentators who understand that the whole story about Haitian immigrants

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