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How A Prankster Convinced People The Amish Would Win Trump The Election
A viral post about millions of Amish voters lining up behind Trump is just a clever hoax.
A story making the rounds online claims that Amish people have pledged their votes to Trump in such numbers as to “mathematically guarantee” him a win come Nov. 8.
According to the article, there are 20 million Amish, and enough of them live in key swing states to make it impossible for Hillary Clinton to win the White House now that this religious community has lined up behind her opponent.
In fact, there are fewer than 300,000 Amish people in the US, and many of them do not vote.
The hoax was published on abcnews.com.co — and it appears at first to be a real news article by ABC News.This isn’t the first time Horner has managed to troll conservatives. Two other stories of his that got wide pickup claimed that Barack Obama had banned the pledge of allegiance and that people were being paid as much as $3,500 to protest at Trump rallies. The latter story was shared by major political figures including Ann Coulter and Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s then-campaign manager.
“It’s just fun to mock the far right because they don’t fact-check,” Horner said. “They just put anything out there.”