​ TUESDAY EDITION Snopes Debunker 22 December 2020 Does Trump’s Residency Change Mean He Committed Voter Fraud in 2018 or 2020? ​ Just ahead of the Nov. 6, 2018 election, President Trump voted absentee as a New Yorker, using the Trump Tower address that had been his primary residence since 1983 as his registered address. In the 2020 election, Trump voted early and in person as a resident of Palm Beach using his Mar-A-Lago address, despite the fact that Mar-a-Lago is a business and that a 1993 contract Trump signed stipulated that the property could not be considered a residence. Did Trump commit voter fraud? Snopes reporter Alex Kasprak has more. Read More Announcing: Our First-Ever Snopes Awards There’s no way around it: 2020 has been an incredibly challenging year. But despite this, people from all over the world have come together to fight misinformation. On Dec. 30, 2020, we’re celebrating these "Lamplighters" who have done work to inspire, inform, or otherwise light the path towards truth with our first-ever Snopes Awards. Learn more or nominate someone here:   Read More Fact Checks Is This 1882 Patent for a Mousetrap Featuring a Loaded Gun Real? Innovators are always seeking a better way to build to a mousetrap. ✅  True   Were Royal Family Affair Rumors ‘Revealed’? Perhaps a website named Money Cougar isn't the best source for reliable royal family news. ❌   False   No, a Photo Doesn’t Show Justice Roberts with Ghislaine Maxwell Online trolls misleadingly labeled a photograph of a French modeling agent sitting with Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. ❌   Miscaptioned   Did Musician Dr. Creep Predict the COVID Pandemic in a 2013 Song? In his 2013 song “Pandemic,” the rapper did sing about a coronavirus. ❌   False   Did the Vatican Say It’s OK To Get the COVID-19 Vaccine? The Holy See gave Catholics the green light to get vaccinated against the pandemic disease. ✅   True View Latest Fact Checks The Season of Giving is Here Santa says* that fighting misinformation automatically puts you on his good list. Help him bring the truth down your chimney by contributing to Snopes today. *This claim is currently rated Unproven. $5 $20 $50 $100 $200 $250 View more options News K.T. Oslin, Country Singer of ‘80’s Ladies,’ Dies at 78 K.T. Oslin's albums “80′s Ladies” and “This Woman” both sold more than 1 million copies. Read More   BioNTech CEO Confident Vaccine Will Work on UK Variant The variant, detected mainly in London and the southeast of England in recent weeks, has sparked concern worldwide because of signs that it may spread more easily. Read More   Scientists Urge Concern, Not Alarm over New Virus Strains Questions are multiplying as fast as new strains of the coronavirus, especially the one now moving through England. Read More   Fox, Newsmax Shoot Down Their Own Aired Claims on Election Smartmatic sent a letter threatening legal action to Fox and two other networks popular with Trump supporters, Newsmax and One America News Network. Read More   Man Dressed as Santa Rescued from Power Lines in California Santa found himself a little more tied up than usual this time of year. Read More

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