Overview
- Trump’s Truth Social feed, which lit up Monday night, featured a made-up quote he attributed to Sen. John Kennedy accusing Barack Obama of profiting $120 million from the Affordable Care Act.
- Kennedy said he never made the claim and told NOTUS he did not know where the wording came from.
- Fact-checkers traced the text to a satire outlet that mass-produces fake quotes, and similar posts have circulated on Facebook using other public figures’ names.
- The late-night spree also amplified debunked claims, including a false One America News report that Dominion machines deleted millions of Trump votes.
- The White House issued a statement about protecting free and fair elections but did not address the fabricated post, reflecting limited official pushback to the president’s online falsehoods.