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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoss Perot bequeathed $100 million to the re-election campaign of President Donald Trump. *FALSE*
A notorious producer of junk news and misinformation capitalized on the death of former presidential candidate Ross Perot in July 2019, publishing a report that the billionaire businessman had left orders to donate $100 million of his fortune to the re-election campaign of President Donald Trump.
Perots family says he was an avid Trump supporter and wanted the Trump agenda to move forward. His spokesman for the past 37 years, Art Tubolls, told us that Mr. Perot was aligned with the Presidents ideals:
Ross was an opportunist, so when he saw the death of Democracy happening, he immediately backed Trump. In the end, should society break down, its going to take a lot of money and power to keep the peace. Trump has some, sure, but families like the Perots will prosper in the New World Order.
A few clear signs indicated that the content of the article was fabricated. First, the source was PotatriotsUnite.com, which is part of a network of websites and social media accounts run by Christopher Blair, who produces a high volume of junk news and misinformation, much of it inflammatory, which he presents as satire.
Furthermore, the article contained some blatantly inaccurate details: Perot had five children, not 11, and their names were Carolyn, Suzanne, Nancy, Katherine, and Ross Jr. The references to the death of Democracy and New World Order, attributed to a Perot spokesman, are outlandish and implausible enough to raise a red flag.
The articles true nature is confirmed by the use of the name Art Tubolls, given here to Perots spokesman for the past 37 years. That name is in fact a moniker used by Blair in multiple articles, and an anagram of Busta Troll, one of Blairs favorite online aliases.
rampartc
(5,439 posts)perot and his reform party are proto tea partiers and they, of course, evolved into the trump cult.
trump ran for the reform party nomination in 2000. I think pat buchanon beat him at that one.
Liberal In Texas
(13,585 posts)Haven't seen much verifiable evidence either way.
jpljr77
(1,004 posts)Trump 2016. Although, they noted, Trump added xenophobia, white nationalism and unashamed lying to capture his crowds.
But on financial/fiscal matters, they were quite similar.
smb
(3,475 posts)I can't imagine that he felt anything but contempt for the pumpkinhead poseur.
DavidDvorkin
(19,493 posts)I've heard stories (admittedly, nothing more than that) that when he was selling IBM's big computers, he connived to have other people's sales listed as his, so that he got the commissions instead of the ones who deserved them.
SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)I must be ignoring all the right "news" sources.
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Now I have to dislike Ross Perot for one of his myriad other imminently detestable qualities.