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He calls it the Epstein “hoax,” a word, it pays to remember, with a specific resonance in Trumpspeak.

Judging from his near-desperate social media posting about the whole thing being a “hoax,” it’s hard to imagine him putting his scrawl on that law.

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The unloved product was shoved into every available online space, cluttering up the digital landscape with junk and hoaxes while promising a far-off profit and a future of easy living.

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It never asks Democratic lawyer Marc Elias about his funding the Russia hoax.

Bomb threats disrupted voting in some parts of New Jersey early Tuesday, temporarily shutting down a string of polling locations across the state before law enforcement determined the threats were hoaxes.

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