it had created "a Twitter bot that would post quotes from the writings and speeches of... Mussolini" at Mr Trump until he eventually retweeted one.
Here is something with a difference.
What I find absolutely ridiculous, shocking and disgusting isn't actually the fact that Trump tweeted (or more correctly, retweeted) Mussolini, but rather the part I picked out in the quote above, which explained how he came to do that.
That's just the worst kind of "gotcha" journalism, and is well into entrapment and fraud territory.
Mussolini was Italian, and all his sayings and quotes would have been in Italian. So unless you are indeed a closet facist who knows all of Mussolini's quotes by heart, it would be almost inevitable that this would happen.
You do this to anyone with an active tweeter account and odds are they will bite at some point.
The fact that this despicable act, which was fundamental in creating the story in the first place, was not only glossed over by other mainstream news outlets in the reporting of it, but actively boasted of by Gawker itself, speaks volumes about the utter lack of all standards or even basic common sense and morality within the so call 'free media'.
I despise The Donald, but unless people actually want to see him bedazzle his name all over the White House, this sort of underhanded BS must stop.
Because if I can see how wrong this was, there is no doubt that his supporters will also. That will just make them feel more angry, victimised and dig in harder, and be more included to believe it was some clever media spin trick if and when Trump does actually say something reprehensible of his own accord.
