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Former President Trump's curiously wrinkled trousers appears to have overshadowed his speech Saturday at a Republican Party state convention in North Carolina.

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Actually, Trump Was NOT Wearing His Pants Backward At A Weekend Rally

11:33am June 07, 2021

by Bill Chappell

Trump's pants, it turns out, have legs. The unusual wrinkles in his attire raised an unlikely question: Could the former leader of the free world be wearing his suit pants backward?

David Mikkelson, founder of Snopes, sits next to a doctored storm photo in 2004. Snopes debunked that image — and has uncovered many other hoaxes. But the future of one of the nation's first digital fact-checking initiatives is currently in doubt.

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Who's The True Boss Of Snopes? Legal Fight Puts Fact-Check Site At Risk

11:10am July 27, 2017

by David Folkenflik

The future of one of the nation's first digital fact-checking initiatives is in doubt. The site's founder says a legal battle for control of the company has led to all of its revenue being cut off.

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