claim: President Donald Trump's website contains a release about a plan to 'fuck the poor.'
origin: On 9 May 2017, a URL that included the words â€œmy plan to fuck the poorâ€ led to a press release about health care on President Donald Trumpâ€™s campaign website. Many posted about the URLÂ on social media, believing that the Trump campaign had created it.Â The veteran-related Common Defense political action committee saidÂ in a tweet they later deleted that it was the â€œactual URL for Trumpâ€™s Healthcare plan,â€ and included a pair of screenshots: Common Defense told us in an email that many supporters who pointed the error out to them â€œassumed that it was a prank by someone disgruntled in the administration.â€ The groupÂ said in a statement: < While the web vulnerability is amusing, it points to a very real and very serious issue: the Trump administration continues to make basic mistakes because of Trumpâ€™s failure to hire the best people, staffing his campaign and the White House with opportunists and incompetent cronies instead. The security of our country and of the world depend upon the competence of the people occupying the White House. Trump is not living up to even the minimum standards the American people deserve. > When we tried the URL in question, we were initially directed to another sectionÂ of the campaign site: Within hours, however, the URL simply brought up a 404 error. The URL was created throughÂ a vulnerability Reddit usersÂ discoveredÂ after the administration removed all press releases from the campaign web site. At a 8 May 2017 press briefing, ABC News reporter Cecilia Vega asked White House press secretary Sean Spicer about a 2015 press release in which Trump called for â€œtotal and complete shutdown on Muslims entering the United States.â€ Shortly afterward, that release was scrubbed from the site, along with everything listed under â€œpress releases.â€ The deletionÂ came on the same day that the Fourth District Court of Appeals heard oral arguments inÂ a case brought against the administration by refugee advocacy organizations who claim that the presidentâ€™s executive order banning travel from six Muslim-majority countries violates the First Amendment.Â A member of the r/politics board explained the campaign web siteâ€™s bug a day before it spread online: < technically they failed at this tooâ€¦the route to the page still existsâ€¦they just blanked the content. https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/donald-j.-trump-statement-on-preventing-muslim-immigration if you go to donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/ you can see that they pulled the links to all the press releases but the page still exists. If you use waybackmachine to find the links you will see they are all still active but have the content wiped. What is even more hilarious is the bug I discovered on his page today. ANY url you go to under /press-releases/ that wasnâ€™t a previously existing page (that has been wiped but not deleted) will take you to his health care planâ€¦what does this mean? It means that you can create absolutely hilarious URLs that actually work: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/my-plan-to-fuck-the-poor and it doesnâ€™t even re-write the URL when you get there! > Another fake URL apparently included the words â€œmy plan liquidation of the jewish people.â€Â We contacted the White House press office seeking comment, but they have not replied.