Did Navy SEALs Loyal to President Trump Arrest Hillary Clinton?

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A widely shared article from Real Raw News, which describes itself as an “independent publisher dedicated to exposing political and scientific corruption,” claims that Navy SEALs have pledged loyalty to Donald Trump and arrested Hillary Clinton on March 4. 

The article reads as follows: “US Navy SEALS loyal to Donald Trump raided Hillary Clinton’s Chappaqua, NY estate and arrested her on charges of treason, destruction of government property, and aiding and abetting the enemy, Real Raw News has learned.” The article also claims that “Trump will soon send her to Guantanamo Bay to face a military tribunal for her crimes against America and its people.” 

The story closed by saying that the Marine Corps and the Navy will support Trump: “GITMO, our source said in closing, is run by the Marine Corps. and the US Navy, both of which have forsaken Joe Biden and instead pledged to help Donald Trump vanquish the forces of darkness that have enshrouded the nation in corruption for decades.

Clinton has not been arrested by the Navy SEALs and Trump does not have control over the military. 

The Real Raw News article does not cite any evidence for these claims and relies on an unnamed source, referred to as “a source in Trump’s orbit.” The article’s “evidence” includes “thousands of never-before-seen emails, which Clinton acid washed prior to the 2016 presidential election,” but again, there is no proof of this.

What’s more, Clinton was active on Twitter on March 4 and participated in a virtual event on March 8, in honor of International Women’s Day. Clinton promoted the event on Twitter on March 5, which again is proof that she has certainly not been arrested. 

Lastly, President Joe Biden, not Trump, is the commander in chief of the military of the United States. Trump was stripped off all presidential power on January 20 at noon. According to the 20th amendment: “The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January.” 

When Biden took office, he became commander in chief, as per the Constitution, which states that: “The President shall be commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States…”

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  1. Daniel

    "widely shared article" - I would like someone to fact check this.

    These are getting stupid.

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  2. Alex DeLarge

    Everyone was surely wondering if "The Real Raw News" (i.e. some guy's blog) had the scoop on this. Thanks for setting the record straight.

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      Dpatricola

      I would believe it more if the site name was The Really Real Raw News. More adverbs = more believable.

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    Jimcarp707

    That this is even an issue to be fact checked is just frightening. Critical thinking has virtually disappeared in this country.

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  4. RCSmith

    Doesn't it make you feel a little dirty that stuff like this needs to be debunked? If this is what the "news" is like on March 4, I shudder to think what it will be on April 1.

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  5. Bubba

    Lies!

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  6. Counterpoint

    Thank you, I needed a laugh today!

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    Not Jonah Goldberg

    Remember back in 2017-2018 when there was a die-hard Clinton fan who ran a website giving headlines as though she had never lost? You remember huge chunks of the right mocking that and saying only the left could far for something so silly? Yea...

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    1. John Cheyney

      No. I really don’t. But if I did I would make fun of them mercilessly, just like this story.

      The stupid thing is that we know that the Army’s Delta Force is actually guarding Hillary and protecting her and Obama. Biden’s son Beau was really a deep black Delta guy and not some Reservist like they wanted you to think.

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        JohnF

        Was the Delta force the same special ops team that overwhelmed an air force base in Frankfurt and transferred voting data over to Italy where it could be altered by algorithms created by MI6 to change Trump votes to Biden before that data was then uploaded to satellites before being downloaded to voting machines?

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    rlritt

    Well, going back and roughly counting all the private emails from Clinton, I can only say that woman must have never left her computer. So far there must be millions of secret emails. She must have emailed everyone she knew about everything she knows.

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    Old guy named Bill (OGNB)

    Thank you for debunking this item as well as other nonsense that floats around social media. In this case, I did get a good laugh.

    "...thousands of never-before-seen emails, which Clinton acid washed prior to the 2016 presidential election...”
    One question: Are acid-washed emails as stylish as acid-washed jeans?

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      Farhall

      I'm glad someone is asking the important questions.

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      rlritt

      Ha ha!!

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  10. Jeff

    We really have to articles like this written these days. Sheesh. I despair for your generation.

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