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President Obama Did not Once Spend 65,000 on Hot Dogs

Editorial Team Editorial Team
Politics
7th August 2020
President Obama Did not Once Spend 65,000 on Hot Dogs
It is unlikely that President Obama literally purchased $65,000 worth of hot dogs (Getty Images)

The Claim

A leaked email proves that President Obama once spent $65,000 of White House funds on hot dogs.

Emerging story

On Monday, February 27th 2020, Wikileaks began publishing “The Global Intelligence Files,” over five million e-mails from the Texas headquartered "global intelligence" company Stratfor. In other info dumps, Wikileaks, founded by intelligence martyr Julian Assange, has exposed presidential candidates and large government conspiracies by leaking sensitive information, with a widely credited 100% accuracy record in reporting. The Global Intelligence Files contain emails with the contents that “I think Obama spent about $65,000 of the tax-payers money flying in pizza/dogs from Chicago for a private party at the White House not long ago, assume we are using the same channels?

Misbar’s Analysis

Misbar’s investigation into this claim reveals it to be false. It is highly unlikely that President Obama literally purchased $65,000 worth of hot dogs and pizza for a private party at the White House, to be flown in from Chicago. But what to make of Wikileaks’ track record? This claim and others like it in The Global Intelligence Files info dump using “Pizza,” “Cheese Pizza,” “Hot Dogs” in highly unusual and lucrative contexts are often paired in the Podesta email dump with such phrases as “spirit cooking,” a satanic ritual popularized among private audiences by artist Maria Abamovic.

This connection inspired the “pizzagate” conspiracy theory, during which investigators discovered that the terms “pizza,” “cheese pizza,” “hot dog,” and others are also used in the child pornography community to communicate about their interests without explicitly using words and phrases to attract the attention of authorities. As such, the claim that potentially many members of the elite class, such as President Obama, could be pedophiles or in dealings with them, first arose. However, once again, the hard evidence for such claims —like the claim of eating $65,000 worth of hot dogs— does not exist in absence of any investigation of them.

Misbar’s Classification

Fake

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