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Proof: Trump tells Texas crowd that wife Melania calls him ‘sir’

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{"first_seen":"2026-10-08T00:02:18Z","headline":"Trump tells Texas crowd that wife Melania calls him ‘sir’","kind":"front-page-headline","rank":1,"source":"independent","url":"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-melania-sir-texas-midterms-ken-paxton-b3063153.html","v":1}

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9611b1eb2d105bc2c2113c837f888c9d14aad4bdf4971c70f56a54bbd6cbbc4c

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Confirmed in Bitcoin block 970411, mined 2026-10-08 00:20 UTC.

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• The record pageCaptured 2026-10-08 00:08 UTC — view the capture.
• The story pageCaptured 2026-10-08 00:09 UTC — view the capture.

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-9611b1eb2d10.json prints 9611b1eb2d105bc2c2113c837f888c9d14aad4bdf4971c70f56a54bbd6cbbc4c. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
2. Drop headline-9611b1eb2d10.json and headline-9611b1eb2d10.json.ots onto opentimestamps.org, which checks the receipt against the Bitcoin block chain. Or, with the OpenTimestamps client and a Bitcoin node: ots verify headline-9611b1eb2d10.json.ots (ots upgrade first while the receipt is pending).
3. Open the Wayback Machine's captures above: the capture of the record page shows this hash as it stood then, and the capture of the story page shows the newsroom's own page.

Sealed automatically, 5 min after it was first seen.