Fact check: GOP Rep. Chip Roy twice promotes false online rumor about Canadian PM fleeing to the US

Republican candidate tells voters to ‘show up armed’ to polls 01:46 Washington (CNN)Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican, has twice in the past three days promoted a fictional online rumor that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fled to the United States because of a protest in Ottawa by a group of truck drivers and others opposed to vaccine mandates, Covid-19 restrictions and Trudeau himself.

Facts First : Trudeau never fled to the United States; no remotely credible source has made this claim, which was initially circulated by an anonymous Twitter account. Trudeau, who announced last Thursday that he was […]

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