In October 2021, former President Donald Trump published a statement in which he gloated over an on-set shooting incident involving the actor Alec Baldwin. Baldwin, who impersonated Trump on “Saturday Night Live” during his presidency, has been targeted by the former president in the past. Now you’re going to prison, as you should have because of that awful, terrible job you did on SNL (which I have hosted). The statement strongly appears to have been a fabrication, and not one actually issued by Trump himself. Secondly, we did not find any social media posts that contained a link to the Baldwin statement, even though each of the statements posted to Trump’s website has its own link.

Source: New York Times October 29, 2021 15:58 UTC