{"id":504185,"date":"2021-05-13T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T17:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=504185"},"modified":"2021-05-13T13:05:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T17:05:20","slug":"fact-check-did-rachel-maddow-tweet-that-hillary-clinton-died-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-rachel-maddow-tweet-that-hillary-clinton-died-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Rachel Maddow Tweet That Hillary Clinton Died In 2016?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-rachel-maddow-tweet-that-hillary-clinton-died-in-2016%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=504185&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Maddow-scaled-e1600470379990.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>An image\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COZ-X4IA1lo\/?utm_source=ig_embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COZ-X4IA1lo\/?utm_source%3Dig_embed&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1620913728999000&#038;usg=AFQjCNEe0NDFrIGyxNB_TVLKvk4ndiVy_A\">shared on Instagram<\/a> claims MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow sent a tweet in 2016 that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton died.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/COZ-X4IA1lo\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" readability=\"-8.925\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no record of Maddow sending such a tweet. It appears to have been fabricated.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Instagram post shares what appears to be a screen grab of a tweet from Maddow sent on Sept. 17, 2016. The alleged tweet reads: \u201cI\u2019m deeply saddened to hear Hillary Clinton has passed away. We lost a great leader and an inspiration to millions.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/03\/31\/fact-check-ben-shapiro-tweet-redpill-moment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>(RELATED: Did Ben Shapiro Send This Tweet About His \u2018#RedPillMoment\u2019?)<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The image, however, does not show a legitimate tweet from Maddow. Check Your Fact looked through Maddow\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maddow?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">verified Twitter account<\/a> but did not find a matching tweet. An archived screen grab of Maddow\u2019s Twitter account from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160917125233\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/maddow?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sept. 17, 2016<\/a>, the day the alleged tweet was sent, likewise showed no instance of Maddow tweeting that Clinton died.<\/p>\n<p>A search of Maddow\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/therachelmaddowshow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/transcripts\/show\/rachel-maddow-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transcripts<\/a> of \u201cThe Rachel Maddow Show\u201d also did not turn up any instances of the MSNBC anchor reporting that Clinton died. Had Maddow actually sent a tweet about the death of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/27\/us\/politics\/dnc-speakers-sanders-clinton.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">then-Democratic nominee for president<\/a>, media outlets certainly would have reported on it, but searches on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=rachel+maddow+hillary+clinton+died+tweet&#038;oq=rachel+maddow+hillary+clinton+died+tweet&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61j69i60.4020j0j4&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=rachel+maddow+%22i%27m+deeply+saddened+to+hear+Hillary+Clinton+passed+away%22&#038;t=hd&#038;va=u&#038;ia=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DuckDuckGo<\/a> did not turn up any such news reports.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton was alive at the time the purported tweet was sent and is still alive. She sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HillaryClinton\">tweet<\/a> from her verified Twitter account on May 12, and recently said in an interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/tv\/2021\/05\/02\/exp-gps-0502-clinton-biden-afghanistan.cnn\">CNN<\/a> that there would be \u201cconsequences\u201d to President Joe Biden\u2019s plan to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image\u00a0shared on Instagram claims MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow sent a tweet in 2016 that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton died. Verdict: False There is no record of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278050,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Maddow-scaled-e1600470379990.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did Rachel Maddow Tweet That Hillary Clinton Died In 2016?","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Rachel-Maddow-scaled-e1600470379990.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: Did Rachel Maddow Tweet That Hillary Clinton Died In 2016?","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}