8 Times Donald Trump Was the President of Fake News (Photos)

The spread of fake news on social media is a serious problem and CBS News anchor Scott Pelley recently said, “The quickest, most direct way to ruin a democracy is to poison the information.” Well, the President-elect Donald Trump has a habit of spreading fake news.

On Nov. 10, Trump tweeted that post-Election Day protestors were “professional,” but there has been nothing to support that theory.

Back in April, BuzzFeed pointed out Trump’s habit of tweeting fake Albert Einstein quotes.

Trump tweeted a photo implying that a black family attended his campaign rally, but the photo was actually taken at a family reunion, according to BuzzFeed.

Back in February, RedState accused Trump of fabricating a Tom Coburn quote in an attempt to smear then-political rival Ted Cruz.

He also accused Cruz’s father of being an associate of the man who killed John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, because of a National Enquirer story.

“All I did is point out the fact that on the cover of the National Enquirer there was a picture of him and crazy Lee Harvey Oswald having breakfast.”

In another case of the president-elect creating the fake news, he scored 22,000 retweets by posting, “Just out according to @CNN: ‘Utah officials report voting machine problems across entire country.'” But it was just one county. No R.

Rigged! After saying the election would be rigged for several months, he won and still claims “million of people” voted illegally despite no evidence of voter fraud.

Let’s give credit where its due: On Dec. 6, Trump fired one of his transition team’s staff members for tweeting a fake news story that led to an armed confrontation in a Washington, DC pizza restaurant. The issue became known as “pizzagate.”