There is no evidence that former TV anchor and defeated Republican 2022 mid-term gubernatorial candidate, Kari Lake, posted a remark on social media calling those who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 elections obese.
A screenshot appears to show a post published by Lake via X, formally known as Twitter, on Nov. 9.
A search through Lake’s posts at the time does not reveal any posts commiserating Trump’s 2016 victory (ghostarchive.org/archive/bELBA).
The earliest iteration Reuters could find of the image stems from a Reddit post published on Nov 4, 2022 (here) and later, via the meme website iFunny, posted on Nov. 8, 2022 (here).
Reuters found no evidence that such a post was published by Lake.
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