Aide to Md. lawmaker fabricated article on fraudulent votes for Clinton
By Ovetta Wiggins
January 18 at 8:17 PM
A Republican legislative aide in Maryland who was behind a fake news site that accused Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of election-rigging was fired Wednesday.
Del. David E. Vogt III (R-Frederick) said he terminated Cameron Harris “on the spot” after learning that he was the mastermind behind ChristianTimesNewspaper.com and its fabricated Sept. 30 article, which reported that there were tens of thousands of “fraudulent Clinton votes found” in an Ohio warehouse.
Harris, who graduated from Davidson College in North Carolina in May, had worked for the Republican delegate since June. He did not return a call for comment, but he apologized in a Twitter post to “those disappointed by my actions” and called for a “larger dialogue about how Americans approach the media” and other issues.
Vogt said he was shocked when he read a story in the New York Times on Wednesday that outlined Harris’s creation of the fake news story. The Times said the article was shared online with 6 million people.
“I was shocked to hear that he could do such a thing,” Vogt said Wednesday evening. “He seemed like a bright young man that was interested in getting involved in politics.”
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