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Martin O’Malley Cites Fake News Story

D’OH!

Said Eric Holder took Wall Street job.

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Presidential candidate Martin O’Malley cited a fake news article in a policy paper about Wall Street. Bloomberg News’s Phil Mattingly noted on Twitter that the first citation in the Democrat’s paper was to The Daily Currant, a satircal news website. The footnote claims Eric Holder took a $77 million job with JP Morgan Chase while he was still attorney general. That, of course, did not happen. No word from the O’Malley campaign yet.

Read it at @Phil_Mattingly/Twitter

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