On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders read a letter from a Stockton, California boy named Dylan Harbin, whose nickname is “Pickle.”

Almost immediately, “Pickle Truthers” in the Trump-deranged media who couldn’t imagine that a 9 year-old could really have written such a letter embarked on an exhaustive boyhunt to verify Pickle’s existence.

Many clearly operated on the assumption that Pickle was a figment of Trump’s fevered imagination, and instigated a detailed forensic analysis of the letter.

It soon became obvious that a number of tweeters, including many in the press, weren’t joking as they questioned Pickle’s existence.

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