Did North Carolina clerk refuse gas to evacuating Trump supporter? Fact Check

ByCraig Haley

An article being spread online claims a gas station attendant at a North Carolina store refused to sell gas to a man fleeing Hurricane Florence because the man’s car had a Trump bumper sticker.

In the article published on TrumpBetrayed.us, the gas station attendant is identified as Marvin Jones who worked at the Marathon station in Charlotte. An excerpt of the article can be read below –

As Hurricane Florence continues to pound the Carolinas, people are banding together and helping each other out. But a gas station attendant in Charlotte, North Carolina doesn’t think that the middle of a hurricane is the right time to put his political differences aside and help his fellow Americans — even if they are handing him money.
Marvin Jones, a clerk at a Marathon station in Charlotte, realized that the gas shortage was going to make life difficult for many trying to flee the hurricane. But he wanted to play God, picking and choosing who lives and who dies.

The article is entirely false, demonstrable simply by the fact that is was published on a spoof news website belonging to the America’s Last Line of Defense network of spoof sites run by Christopher Blair.

Such sites include a definition of satire at the bottom of each page.


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The image used to illustrate the alleged exchange between the gas station clerk and the Trump supporter actually comes from a 2011 “scuffle” between a clerk and an attempted robber in Lenexa, Kansas.

As such the story isn’t true and we don’t recommend circulating it.

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