get your attention until you looked a little closer. fake copies of the washington post were passed around outside the white house and other parts of washington. the papers were dated may 1st, 2019. among the headlines, un-presidented. trump hastily departs white house ending crisis. and celebrations break out worldwide as trump era ends and president pence begins clipped duck term. one must say that carefully. the real washington post put out a statement that said, there are fake print editions, no kidding, of the washington post being distributed around downtown washington, d.c. and we are aware of a website trying to mimic the post s . they are not post-products and we are looking into this. then the real washington post got down to business, did some great reporting on what was behind the fake papers. a group that describes itself as a trickster activist collective called the yes men said it produced the bogus newspapers and website which went offline wednesday afternoo
produced the bogus newspapers and website which went offline wednesday afternoon. uses the pseudonym andy bichlbaum said he was one of the founders of the yes men and the paper was intended to provide grassroots tips for how to went on to say the group printed 25,000 copies. he estimated about 10,000 of the papers were distributed. all at a cost believed to be in the neighborhood of 40 grand, give or take. coming up for us, americans coming to the aid of federal workers. our federal workers with zero income while washington fights and our government remains shut down. vernment remains shut down