In an age of 'alternative facts,' a massacre of schoolchildren is called a hoax

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Source: Chicago Tribune

In an age of 'alternative facts,' a massacre of schoolchildren is called a hoax

By Barbara Demick
February 3, 2017 6:00 pm

If there is anything worse than losing a child, it is losing a child and having people taunt you over the loss.

That is what happened to the family of Noah Pozner, a 6-year-old with tousled brown hair and lollipop-red lips, the youngest of the 26 children and staff members gunned down in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

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President Trump and his national security advisor, Michael T. Flynn, have been open enthusiasts of Alex Jones’ Infowars, a Web-based radio and video network that has relentlessly pushed the theory that Sandy Hook was staged by Democrats to advance a gun control agenda.

An unabashed Trump supporter during the campaign, Jones says he received a personal call of thanks from the president-elect days after the election.

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Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-newtown-massacre-alternative-facts-20170203-story.html

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1. That is a stretch

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2. Donald Trump: "Great Honor" To Be Endorsed By Sandy Hook Truther

http://mediamatters.org/research/2016/03/08/donald-trump-great-honor-to-be-endorsed-by-sand/209076

Donald Trump: "Great Honor" To Be Endorsed By Sandy Hook Truther
Trump Rally Speaker Carl Gallups Attacked Newtown Victim's Parents As Fakes Who Participated In "Staged" Shooting

March 8, 2016 11:12 AM EST

Donald Trump's campaign has been relying on the support of Carl Gallups, a Florida-based pastor and radio host, ahead of the state's March 15 Republican primary; the campaign invited Gallups to speak at a rally and touted his endorsement as a "great honor" from a "prominent" leader. Gallups is a fringe conspiracy host who believes the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, CT, was a "staged" "hoax" and that the father of one of the victims was an "actor employed by the Obama administration to take away your guns."

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Trump: "Great Honor" To Be Endorsed By "Prominent" Leader Carl Gallups. A January 13 press release on Trump's website touted Gallups as "incredible" and one of several "prominent community leaders in Florida" to endorse him. Trump stated in the release that it's a "great honor" to receive Gallups' endorsement. (DonaldJTrump.com, 1/13/16)

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3. Inhuman slime, Pissolini, his cronies, and his supporters.

And most of them claim to be Christians.

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4. Gunning for Jones

Although I am generally against violence and the use of firearms by civilians, if I had lost a child at Sandy Hook I would go looking for Jones with a gun, and the end wouldn't be pretty.