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Far-Right Twitter Keeps Falling for the Same Liberal Troll

D’OH!

No, a Mayo Clinic doctor didn’t say he loves to abort Trump supporters’ fetuses. The history of a joke format that became a hoax.

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The tweet was an obvious troll, by a fake doctor with a profane name.

“When Trump supporters come to my office at the Mayo Clinic, I love misdiagnosing their healthy pregnancies as ectopic so they have to abort their white fetuses,” Twitter user @DrNifkin wrote last week.

Since then, the Mayo...

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