FILE – In this Oct. 11, 2017, file photo, MSNBC television anchor Joe Scarborough takes questions from an audience at forum at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Scarborough announced Oct. 12, 2017, that he formally left the Republican party and became an independent. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Twitter recently went after a video spread by folks in the Trump campaign about Joe Biden and termed it a “manipulated video” because it cut off before the end of the sentence, leaving out some context, as my colleague Sister Toldjah reported.

Yet they’ve not been the same flag on a video put out by Joe Biden that was out and out false, which claimed President Donald Trump said that the Wuhan virus was a hoax and that he called the Neo-Nazis in Charlottesville “very fine people.”

Now we have another tweet, also not flagged by Twitter, completely false, but braintrusts Rick Wilson and MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough completely fell for it.

The stock market took a big hit today, partly because of continuing fears about the effect of the Wuhan virus on the global economy but mostly because a Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war sent the markets into a frenzy.

That of course made all the usual suspects, like Wilson and Scarborough happy to have something they thought they could attack Trump over.

Except they then spread an obviously fake tweet which has been debunked multiple times in the past, that supposedly had Trump saying that a sitting president should be shot out of a cannon into the Sun, if the Dow Jones dropped. Real journalism there, guys.

I agree, Mr. President. pic.twitter.com/OtM9f6K5oz

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 9, 2020

Joe Scarborough deleted his, but this Twitter user caught a screenshot:

Posting it for when he dirty deletes.
It would be a shame to lose such brilliant material that proves how seriously deranged and sick our media truly has become.
Fake tweet, Joe. Now go cry to Mika. pic.twitter.com/bHFshvscSH

— AnonymousAda (@AnonymousAda) March 9, 2020

From Daily Caller:

The fake tweet was created by a blogger named Shaun Usher, who admitted to making it after it went viral in 2018, Snopes reported. Despite the tweet being debunked in 2018, Scarborough and Wilson fell for it as the tweet re-circulated social media amid the Dow Jones dropping.

Even Snopes and Reuters have flagged it as false in the past.

Yet that apparently went over the heads of Wilson and Scarborough. Although admittedly, going over their heads doesn’t take much.

These people are idiots pic.twitter.com/7fcOt1q9Bd

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 9, 2020

Trump supporters are “ten toothed rubes” Rick Wilson says as he tweets a fake Trump tweet

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 9, 2020

Cool fake tweet, Mr. Principles. https://t.co/bZGEMF2Jlt

— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) March 9, 2020

Hey @Twitter — is posting a false tweet impersonating the president "targeted harassment" within the meaning of your TOS? what about election interference? What if this fake tweet impersonating a candidate for the highest office in the world, posted by a deranged critic of his? https://t.co/qKW3KtcMPa

— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) March 9, 2020

Lol at these clowns falling for a fake tweet pic.twitter.com/5Bpqa6m0ED

— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) March 9, 2020

Haha @JoeNBC is now mocking typos in a fake tweet he still doesn’t realize is fake pic.twitter.com/A3S7BKsbKW

— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) March 9, 2020

At least Scarborough deleted it after a lot of backlash. Wilson still has it up at this writing. Because, you know, principled conservatism and he can deceive a few more people to mock Trump.

Twitter has done nothing to take down Wilson’s tweet or flag it as false/manipulated media.

HT: Twitchy