Jeb Bush actually didn't meet with Black Lives Matter activists before they broke up his campaign event

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Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) saw his campaign event in Las Vegas come to an abrupt end Wednesday when Black Lives Matter activists protested. But the news was tempered by the claim from Bush's aides that he met with some of the group's members beforehand.

New reporting from the Huffington Post published Friday suggests the meeting with activists never happened.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.