Claim: On September 18 2020, Twitter user @JohnCammo tweeted that President Trump's "October Surprise" would involve a positive test result.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: October surprise
text: reported that 650,000 emails on Weiner's computer were to be investigated, potentially being relevant to this particular and other cases. A caravan of refugees from Central America became the "October surprise" of 2018. President Trump tweeted false information about the caravan, intending to stir up race-based fear among voters in an apparent attempt to get more Republican voters. Trump would later release a Republican television advertisement that many criticized as racist (Fox News, NBC, and Facebook removed the advertisement after they considered it racist and CNN refused to air it). The story became a key talking point during the midterm

title: Donald Trump on social media
text: Presidential Twitter account (@POTUS), which had been created by the previous President, Barack Obama. Trump's first tweets as president were made from his personal account, but he has used both accounts. Trump is a known viewer of the Fox News show "Fox & Friends" and has tweeted reactions to what he has seen on the show on numerous occasions. One well-known example is his tweet on January 2, 2018, when he stated that his "Nuclear Button" was "much bigger & more powerful" than Kim Jong Un's, following a Fox News segment about Jong Un's "Nuclear Button" minutes before. Trump watches

title: Social policy of Donald Trump
text: reaction among his supporters." In the September 2016 presidential debate, when asked if he would honor the outcome of the election, Trump said that he "absolutely" would. Four days later, Trump appeared to have reconsidered his statement from the debate, saying "We're going to have to see. We're going to see what happens. We're going to have to see." In early- and mid-October 2016, Trump repeatedly claimed that the election was "rigged" and alleged that the media coordinated with the Clinton campaign, citing Alec Baldwin's portrayal of him on "Saturday Night Live". In October 2016, after early voting and voting

title: Political positions of Donald Trump
text: of his long-form birth certificate, despite the fact that he continued to question Obama's citizenship in the years that followed. The next day, Trump tweeted a "Washington Post" story with the headline "Donald Trump's birther event is the greatest trick he's ever pulled". The "greatest trick" of the headline referred to the fact that cable networks aired the event live, waiting for a "birther" statement, while Trump touted his new hotel and supporters gave testimonials. In October 2016, Trump appeared to question the legitimacy of Barack Obama's presidency, referring to him at a rally as the "quote 'president. Trump caused

title: Matt Lauer
text: which Sheen revealed that he was HIV-positive. On September 8, 2016, Lauer conducted separate 30-minute interviews with presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. "The New York Times" reported that the reaction to Lauer's performance was "not kind". Lauer devoted much of the Clinton interview to questions about her e-mail server, and according to critics appeared to rush through audience-led topics such as domestic terror attacks and veterans' affairs, implying that there was not enough time to cover these in detail. Many also felt that Lauer failed to challenge Trump on alleged inaccuracies, such as his statement that he was

title: JobsNotMobs
text: Ben Schreckinger who tracked the slogan down using a third-party tool, The First Tweet, the first person to use it was probable Danny East, a Twitter user in Georgia who had about 500 followers and who used the phrase on October 11 in response to video of Trump speaking. Adams popularized the slogan by endorsing it on October 12th.. The phrase was retweeted by activist Turning Point USA and actor James Woods before being publicized on Fox & Friends on October 15. It was being widely retweeted by 18 October, when President Trump first retweeted it. It continued to grow

title: Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign
text: to his audience is unprecedented as a campaign tool. On November 22, 2015, Trump retweeted an image containing racially charged and inaccurate crime data between blacks and whites, cited to a non-existent group. According to "Newsweek", the image appeared to originate with a neo-Nazi Twitter account. When later asked by Bill O'Reilly about his sharing of the image, Trump confirmed that he had personally retweeted the image and said that it came from "sources that are very credible." The Annenberg Public Policy Center's FactCheck.org reported that the image was a "bogus graphic." On February 28, Trump re-tweeted a Mussolini quote

title: October surprise
text: elections with many Republican politicians reiterating the false statements made by Trump and with Democrats denouncing the racist tones of Trump's statements. The story dominated discussion on many news networks, with many pundits criticizing Trump. News host Shepard Smith said on his Fox News show that the migrant caravan "hysteria" was actually intended to stoke fear before the midterm election and ridiculed Trump's claims. October surprise In American political jargon, an October surprise is a news event deliberately created or timed or sometimes occurring spontaneously to influence the outcome of an election, particularly one for the U.S. presidency. The reference

title: Executive Order 13799
text: Election Integrity"), which was signed by President Trump on January 3, 2018. During his campaign for President, Donald Trump made numerous claims of large-scale voter fraud occurring in the United States which have been criticized as lacking evidence by commentators including FactCheck.org. In the run-up to the election, Trump also asked his supporters to volunteer as "poll watchers" on Election Day, leading to fears from some of voter intimidation. On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump won the 2016 United States presidential election electoral college vote 304 to 227, although his opponent, Hillary Clinton, had received 2.9 million more votes. After

title: Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign
text: took the stage to deafening applause, 'the unborn babies, thank you for standing for life.'" On October 22, 2018, President Trump declared himself a Nationalist. During his campaign rally in Houston that night, Trump declared “I am a nationalist. It’s a word that hasn’t been used too much. Some people use it, but I’m very proud. I think it should be brought back." The controversial use of the word "Nationalism" is recognized in Trump's own statement on October 22, as he stated, "And I say, really, we’re not supposed to use that word. You know what I am? I’m a

title: Social media in the 2016 United States presidential election
text: "/r/all" page of the website resulted in the significant portion of the page being /r/The_Donald content. In response, Reddit made changes to its algorithms on June 15 in an attempt to preserve variety of /r/all. On July 27, 2016, Trump participated in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on /r/The_Donald, answering thirteen questions from his supporters. /r/The_Donald is more active and has a higher subscriber count than the subreddit for Hillary Clinton, /r/HillaryClinton. Trump has become well-documented in his frequent Twitter posts. With social media acting as free media and publicity, Trump harnessed Twitter as a platform to respond quickly to

title: First 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency
text: enacted in December 2016. On the same day he signed Public Law 115-22 which overturned the December 2, 2016 FCC Privacy Rule relating to "Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services" On April 13, Trump signed the law which overturned the HHS Title X Funding for Planned Parenthood Rule. The 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, gave his first public address before a joint session of the United States Congress on February 28, 2017. Trump announced the creation of the Office of Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE). Protests against Donald Trump have occurred

title: Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories
text: advice. After Obama released his long-form birth certificate on April 27, 2011, Trump said "I am really honored and I am really proud, that I was able to do something that nobody else could do." On October 24, 2012, Trump offered to donate five million dollars to the charity of Obama's choice in return for the publication of his college and passport applications before October 31, 2012. On September 16, 2016, as the Republican Party presidential nominee, Trump conceded that "President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period." Trump gave himself credit for putting the controversy to rest

title: Donald Trump on social media
text: his marketing team decided to use the username @realDonaldTrump. Trump sent out his first tweet on May 4, 2009, advertising his upcoming appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman", which was due to air a couple of days later. From 2009 to 2011, tweets posted by the @realDonaldTrump account included the phrase "from Donald Trump" to distinguish them from those written by his staff, but by about June 2011, as Trump's use of the platform increased, those identifying labels disappeared. By the 2016 campaign, researchers observed that some tweets—often those with the most critical opinions—were being submitted from an

title: Saturday Night Live parodies of Donald Trump
text: the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Reportedly, several cast members had auditioned for the role. Killam's Trump debuted on the October 2015 sketch "A Message From Donald & Melania Trump", which also introduced Cecily Strong as Melania Trump. The message is sent from "our humble gold house", and Donald presents himself as "the man who's almost certainly your next president". The couple praise Donald's qualities as a person and a politician, although he becomes uncomfortable when she claims that he "was Democrat before he was Republican". The duo reprised the setup and characters in December, wishing viewers a Merry Christmas and

title: First 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency
text: as the House Ethics Committee began investigating claims that he improperly disclosed classified information. He called the allegations "entirely false". Mike Conaway (R-TX) will replace Nunes to lead the investigation. Trump filed a form with the FEC declaring his eligibility to run for re-election in 2020 within hours of his taking office. The first rally paid for by the campaign took place at the Orlando Melbourne International Airport near Orlando, Florida, on February 18, 2017. The campaign rally was the earliest such event by any incumbent U.S. President in history. During the event, Trump defended his actions as President and

title: Presidency of Donald Trump
text: fact checkers rated false include the claim that his electoral college victory was a "landslide"<ref name="PolitiFact_12/11/2016"></ref><ref name="FactCheck_11/29/2016"></ref><ref name="Seipel_12/11/2016"></ref> and that Hillary Clinton received 3-5 million illegal votes.<ref name="PolitiFact_11/27/2016"></ref> In April 2017, after Trump was asked if he stood by his unproven allegation that his "sick" and "bad" predecessor Barack Obama had wiretapped him, Trump replied: "I don't stand by anything." On September 13, 2018, "The Washington Post" reported that "President Trump has made more than 5,000 false or misleading claims."<ref name="Kessler_Rizzo_Kelly_9/13/2018"></ref> At a November 3, 2018 rally in Montana, Trump asserted, "I'm the only one that tells you the facts."

title: Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign
text: especially in North Carolina, which Trump won by less than 4 percentage points in the 2016 election. Finally, it was mentioned that a large part of the campaign's efforts thus far have involved an expansion of its data program being overseen by Brad Parscale. On his August 29 visit to Texas following Hurricane Harvey, the president made the unusual move of delivering an impromptu campaign-style speech. On September 16, groups supporting Trump organized a rally on the National Mall named the "Mother of All Rallies". Organizers were originally hoping to draw one million attendees. However, in planning for security, the

title: David Meade (author)
text: new predictions for that month, such as Nibiru eclipsing the sun on October 5 and that several people would levitate into the sky (including current U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence) followed by a nuclear attack by North Korea, China, and Russia on the United States. He predicted other events for that month, such as a series of magnitude 9.8 earthquakes; that the Earth's pole would shift by 30 degrees; that the United States would be split in half; and that Barack Obama would be elected as U.S. President for an illegal third term. He also predicted

title: First 100 days of Donald Trump's presidency
text: "X" referring to "in development". On February 16, 2017, President Trump's Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, declared that the United States was not currently prepared to collaborate with Russia on military matters—including future anti-ISIL US operations. On February 24, Trump "risked triggering a new Cold War-style arms race between Washington and Moscow. In an interview with "Reuters", Trump said that the "treaty limiting Russian and U.S. nuclear arsenals was a bad deal for Washington" and he "would put the U.S. nuclear arsenal "at the top of the pack." In response, Russia's Konstantin Kosachev wrote on his Facebook page, "arguably Trump's