Even if the underlying HuffPost quote is accurate, this article gives a good illustration of "fake news" strategies. Note what the article says: "an inaugurati

Even if the underlying HuffPost quote is accurate, this article gives a good illustration of "fake news" strategies. Note what the article says: "an inauguration team source told the Huffington Post..." So, whether the content is false or true, it may well be true that somebody claiming to be a source told the HuffPost that, in which case the NY Post considers itself off the hook for validity. However, Even the HuffPost article doesn't claim that this was Trump's request. Quoting: "... a member of Trump’s transition team floated the idea of including tanks and missile launchers...". So, the NYP headline appears to be a flat lie. Nowadays, one has to parse news like YACC parsing a grammar.