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T-shirts of Donald Trump assassination attempt sold on Chinese e-commerce sites, listings swiftly taken down

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Images of the T-shirt listings also appear to have been censored on microblogging site Weibo.

T-shirts of Donald Trump assassination attempt sold on Chinese e-commerce sites, listings swiftly taken down

Chinese e-commerce retailers were quick to cash in on the assassination attempt on former United States president Donald Trump last Saturday (Jul 13), with T-shirts of the image of him waving his fist going on sale hours after the news broke.

On popular e-commerce platform Taobao, the first batch of t-shirts went on sale less than three hours after the shooting happened in Pennsylvania at about 6.11pm local time, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported.

A Taobao seller told the news outlet she put the T-shirts on sale as soon as she read the news. Within three hours, she received more than 2,000 orders from China and the US.

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