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    Trump Didn’t Call Flu Shot a ‘Scam’

    by Chloe Wilson Dec 04, 2018 3 minutes
    Quick Take

    President Donald Trump did not call the flu shot a “scam,” as is being claimed by a number of widely circulated blog articles.

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    An article appearing on several websites falsely claims that President Donald Trump once warned that flu shots are a “scam.” He didn’t. In 2015, Trump, then a presidential candidate, merely said that he had never gotten a flu shot.

    All of the websites carry the item under the same inaccurate headline, “Trump Warns Flu Shots Are The Greatest ‘Scam’ In, a website that posts items about health and beauty. But it dates to at least late January 2017, when Trump became president, and has appeared on , , a self-described alternative news website, and , which 

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