US Democrats are wrong to lay the blame on fake news for the crushing defeat their presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, suffered at the hands of Republican candidate Donald Trump on November 8, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.
Some Democrats, including President Barack Obama, have argued that Clinton lost the presidential election to Trump, the president-elect, because of the spread of fake news online against her in the run-up to Election Day.
Kellyanne Conway, a senior adviser to Trump, rejected the claims, saying that “a little self-awareness would do for a team that is blaming everybody but themselves for this.”
“What are the Clinton campaign, the DNC and the White House saying? ‘Clinton, a stellar candidate ran a stellar campaign but fake news brought her down’? Other than news that Bill Clinton had a black child, what fake news was really put out there against her?” Hoenig asked.
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