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Claim: Actor-comedian Bill Murray died at age 81 in February 2019, expressing a wish to see ‘Americans united under Trump.’ On 9 February 2019, the Conservative Tears website published an
article reporting that actor-comedian Bill Murray had died at the age of 81, expressing that he "wanted to see America unite under President Trump": > BILL MURRAY DEAD AT 81 –
WANTED TO SEE ‘AMERICANS UNITED UNDER > TRUMP’ > > William Billington “Bill” Murray is dead this evening in his > home in Winnetka, Wisconsin. Murray, who left public life a few
> years ago to pursue a more conservative lifestyle, found out he was > dying about three months ago but decided not to make a big deal out > of it. > > According to his
spokesman and lawyer, Art Tubolls, Murray left very > simple instructions for his passing: > > Bill wanted to see America unite under President Trump and come > together to
fight against all the things he’s fought against his > entire career. When he wrote the movie Ghostbusters he used Slimer > as an example of how feeding something causes dependence.
Stripes > was to teach the average American that anyone can be a hero if the > timing is right. None of this was true: at the time this report was published, Bill Murray was still very
much alive and only 68 years old. The report of his death was another fabrication by Conservative Tears, a site which is part of the America's Last Line of Defense network of websites
and Facebook pages that pump out a steady stream of inflammatory and politically divisive misinformation under the guise of proffering "satire." The very same site had published an
equally false report of actor Henry Winkler's supposed death a week earlier.