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Was a Golden Trump Statue Spotted at CPAC?

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27 February 2021

Was a Golden Trump Statue Spotted at CPAC?

On Feb. 26, 2021, as conservatives gathered in Orlando, Florida, for the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a video started circulating on social media that supposedly showed a golden statue of former U.S. President Donald Trump being rolled through the venue.

Snopes reporter Dan Evon has the story.

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