Fairly sure. Every tv channel and radio station and newspaper all coordinated around the FAKE NEWS message when Pizzagate came out. I think Crooked Hillary may have used it once or twice to refer to Alex Jones, but it wasn’t part of the common lexicon. Before FAKE NEWS we mostly called it the MSM. Pizzagate hits. All of a sudden Pizzagate is automatically and immediately debunked around the world and every station, in what was possibly the most coordinated news event ever, in my opinion, was saying two things: Pizzagate is debunked so don’t even look into it because it is so ridiculous and this is an example of the danger of FAKE NEWS that people like Alex Jones peddle. I don’t remember exactly when Trump took it from them but the swap in meaning happened fast too. I just think it fit their side more than our side so much better that it was essentially a weapon they were unable to wield. Then they kind of went back to the whole conspiracy theory angle.

I suppose a good way to confirm this would be to see if anyone used FAKE NEWS in the debate with Crooked.