Obama repeats ’18 school shootings in 2018′ lie

Published March 6, 2018 7:31pm ET



Former President Barack Obama on Monday repeated the now-debunked claim that there have been 18 school shootings in 2018 after the Parkland, Fla., massacre on February 14 that took the lives of 17 people and wounded 16 others.

The claim went unchallenged by the moderator, which was debunked shortly after the shooting initially by the Washington Examiner. It was also fact-checked by the Washington Post and even Snopes. Despite the fact that it was debunked, it didn’t stop the former president from spreading the lie.

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