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600,000 Trump Mobile phones sold? There’s no proof.

600,000 Trump Mobile phones sold? There’s no proof.

600,000 Trump Mobile phones sold? There's no proof.

600,000 Trump Mobile phones sold? There’s no proof.

Where’s the Trump phone? We’re going to keep talking about it every week. We’ve reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone’s whereabouts. As usual, we’re still waiting for a response. In the meantime, some impressive alleged sales figures have gone viral – but they might be too good to be true.

This week, I saw something new in my regular scouring of the web for updates on the Trump phone: a repeated claim that Trump Mobile has secured nearly 600,000 preorders for the phone. With a $100 deposit per device, that would make for a tidy $60 million payday for Trump Mobile already.

It’s curious timing, coming just before yesterday’s op …

Read the full story at The Verge.