A website dedicated to supporting the victims of the tragic Bowling Green massacre is collecting funds for those who have been torn apart from the devastation – but all is not as it seems.
ICYMI: in an interview with MSNBC, Donald Trump’s key adviser Kellyanne Conway made claims: “Two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalised and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre. It didn’t get covered.”
Except that, of course, never actually happened.
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Nevertheless the Bowling Green Massacre Victims Fund wants to support to those who suffered during this entirely fictitious event, and asks people to “remember how our fortitude and compassion unite us all through these difficult times”.
The website reads: “We all still carry the vivid memories of what horrors occurred at Bowling Green, but some still relive those moments everyday as they work to rebuild a community torn apart.”
However, when visitors click on the donate button, they are diverted to the American Civil Liberties Union donation page, an organisation that works to defend and preserve the individual rights of those in the US.
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The trolling of Conway was not limited to the satirical Bowling Green Massacre Victims Fund; locals from both New York’s City’s Bowling Green and Kentucky’s held vigils for the ‘victims’ of the attack.
To clarify: Bowling Green is an actual place in Kentucky, however the 2011 massacre which Conway referred to did not happen. Conway later said she had meant to refer to two Iraqi refugees who had been arrested in the city at that time.
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