The website Discussel engaged in a bit of brainless skullduggery Friday when it claimed that congresswoman Maxine Waters “officially requested to resign.” (Waters has been the subject of several specious assertions in recent weeks.)
The claim also appeared in several YouTube videos as well as a post from the ersatz Facebook page @SarahSandersOfficialPage. (This page maintains that it is a “a community who support Sarah Sanders! We do NOT represent Sarah Sanders in any way or speak on her behalf.”) TWS Fact Check questions why this mountebank page, which shares fake quotes from celebrities and other nonsense, did not choose a less brazenly-misleading title than “Sarah Sanders Official Page” if it did not mean to confuse visitors. But, c’est l’internet.
Like so much false political news on the internet, the article from Discussel does not give any evidence or support to its headline, “She’s Done! Maxine Waters Officially Requested To Resign.” The article simply copies, with the tiniest bit of alteration, other reports that a Republican congressman put forth a resolution requesting Waters’ resignation.
Waters has not “officially requested to resign” which, by the by, is a statement that doesn’t even make sense on its face.
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