We get that the liberal media wants Michael Wolff’s new book on President Trump to be true, but is rapper and actor Curtis James Jackson III — also known as 50 Cent — really how you want to fact check it?
Apparently so. At issue is this passage from “Fire and Fury” that claims Donald Trump Jr. said his father looked like he had “seen a ghost” when it looked like he would win the 2016 election:
Once it looked as if Donald Trump could actually win the election, he looked as if he'd seen a ghost, and Melania started crying.https://t.co/yAITCaoZyp pic.twitter.com/rjHnV7DDwO
— Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) January 3, 2018
And here’s the clip from MSNBC’s Ari Melber from Tuesday night using 50 Cent to confirm Wolff’s account:
Since last year, @50cent has been saying Trump never wanted to be President. Now, in 'Fire and Fury' a series of interviews suggests exactly that: pic.twitter.com/X7fALzMCKi
— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) January 10, 2018
Melber is referring to these two stories: 1. 50 Cent told Stephen Colbert that Trump’s win was an “accident“; and 2. 50 Cent claimed that Trump offered him $500,000 to help win black votes:
“Before he got elected, they were having issues with the African-American vote,” Jackson said. “They wanted to pay me $500,000 as part of the campaign just to make an appearance. I was like, ‘Nah, that’s not good money.’ ”
Um, that’s not any confirmation of the sort.
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