Trump Did not As soon as Say Republicans Are the 'Dumbest Group of Voters'

Claims have unfold on-line for years that former U.S. President Donald Trump as soon as instructed Folks journal in 1998 that Republicans are “the dumbest group of voters within the nation.”

“If I have been to run, I might run as a Republican,” the purported 1998 Trump quote begins. “They’re the dumbest group of voters within the nation. They consider something on Fox Information. I may lie they usually’d nonetheless eat it up. I wager my numbers could be terrific.”

We discovered no proof that Trump ever stated the quote in query.

The declare started to unfold once more in the summertime of 2024 on social media platforms like Reddit, Threads and X. The alleged quote was shared earlier within the 12 months, as nicely, on platforms together with X, Facebook and TikTok. We additionally discovered the quote shared on Imgur in 2023 and TikTok in 2020.

A quote from an interview Donald Trump gave in 1998
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We beforehand wrote concerning the quote, in 2015 and 2020. Folks journal beforehand confirmed to FactCheck.org that it had no file of getting printed any such interview or trade with Trump:

Folks regarded into this exhaustively when it first surfaced again in Oct. [2015]. We combed by way of each Trump story in our archive. We could not discover something remotely like this quote — and no interview in any respect in 1998.

In 1998, Folks lined Trump principally for his relationships along with his first and second wives, Ivana Trump and Marla Maples. Whereas there may be evidence Trump was all for politics in the course of the late ’90s, nothing we discovered proved he ever stated something about “dumb Republicans” to any respected publication.

We have continued to cover the previous U.S. president in the course of the run-up to the 2024 election, together with actual photos that present him along with his daughter Ivanka sitting in his lap.

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