also another fake news example;
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/03/my-day-with-snopes.phphttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ilhan-omar-marry-brother/snopes:
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We also sent a list of questions to Powerline blogger Scott Johnson, who responded on 25 March 2019 but offered nothing more substantive in support of the claim than inference and supposition.
powerline's email to snopes:
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When I originally reported that we had been tipped to Omar’s peculiar marital situation on Power Line, I had been tipped by a reader to a post with photographic evidence (as I recall) on SomaliSpot message board. I first checked out the dates of Omar’s marriages on the Minnesota online marriage database. The dates and names checked out. Checking Omar’s online site, I found that she advertised husband number 1 as her husband and the father of her children. I followed up with an inquiry to Omar through her campaign spokesman. The spokesman told me they would respond to me later that day. Late that day I heard from a criminal defense attorney whom I knew from covering the Somali terrorism case here. She represented one of the defendants in the case. The attorney’s response provided a nondenial denial attacking me in personal terms. I drew adverse inferences from Omar’s response. That is what I originally reported.
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See Preya Samsundar’s several articles at Alpha News and David Steinberg’s four 2018 columns for PJ Media. Steinberg’s for 2018 columns are full of additional evidence supporting the proposition that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi (husband number 2) is her brother.
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I have also met with a confidential Somali source who confirms my reporting based on his acquaintance with the family members. He gave me copies of Facebook photos now removed of her brothers in London. I believe that one of Preya’s Alpha News 2016 articles has the photos and a lot of other related social media information.
photographic evidence, dates and names, marriage certificates, social media posts, witnesses and acquaintance statements, tipsters, statement from the accused, four whole columns of photos, documents, school records, apartment leases, etc etc-
= "nothing more substantive in support of the claim than inference and supposition"
I mean, what do they call this?;
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