Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Keck,” Victor Lewis scours the Internet for the day’s top trending stories, from weird news to wacky crimes to odd business ventures and everything in between. Click here to listen back to all our past What’s Trending segments – and tune in to “This Morning” on 97.9 The Hill every weekday at 7:45 to hear What’s Trending live on the air.
Trending today: a move by the Japanese government to officially dissolve the Unification Church – strangely, in response to the manifesto written by the man who assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last year. Reminiscent, Aaron says, of something that happened in the U.S. in the 19th century: the assassination of President James Garfield in 1881, which ultimately led to the passage of a major civil service reform bill – with the help of a very unlikely champion.
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