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Cattledog

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1. Chipper Jones who said...

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 08:12 PM

Jan 2018

Sandy Hook was a hoax.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2015/02/atlanta_braves_legend_chipper.html

Add former Atlanta Braves star Chipper Jones to the list of celebrities who said something dumb on Twitter.

Seems that Jones implied in a tweet Friday afternoon that the Sandy Hook shooting, in which 20 children and six staff members were killed at a Connecticut elementary school in 2012, never really happened.

Jones has deleted the tweet, but one fellow Twitter user preserved it with a screenshot:

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