Did Ruth Bader Ginsburg call Trump impeachment “Illegal BS”? Fact Check
An article spreading virally claims Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the Impeachment of Donald Trump “Illegal BS”.
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The article, published originally on the website Taters Gonna Tate, claims that Bader Ginsburg, widely seen as one of the more liberal or left leaning justices on the Supreme Court, called the impeachment “illegal BS” and “a farce”.
An excerpt of the article reads –
RGB Calls Impeachment ‘Illegal BS’
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has been a longtime opponent of President Trump and has called for his impeachment and removal many times. Throughout her recent illnesses she has vowed to stay on the bench “as long as it takes for Trump to be taken out of the White House.”
So she should be happy about this week’s decision to go ahead from the House, right? One would think so but statements she made today are surprising everyone and showing an impartiality that was not expected by anybody.
The brief article isn’t accurate, however. Ruth Bader Ginsburg made no such assertion, and the quotes supposedly made by her have been entirely made up. No such media outlets – conservative or otherwise – have reported on the alleged quote.
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Not only has the article misspelled Ginsburg as Ginsberg, but it was also penned by the spoof news website TatersGonnaTate.com. It’s a website that is designed to “troll” conservative readers by posting anti-liberal articles that are really just spoof “news”. It’s a website that regularly publishes this type of spoof news and labels it satire. The About Us page has the following disclaimer –
Tatersgonnatate.com is a subsidiary of the “America’s Last Line of Defense” network of parody, satire, and tomfoolery
The America’s Last Line of Defense network is a network of related spoof news websites that are all designed to “troll” conservative readers. All of the websites contain a “satire” label and a disclaimer, but they are frequently copied to other sites without such disclaimers.
Other websites currently active in this network of sites at the time of writing include DailyWorldUpdate.us and TrumpBetrayed.us.