The Family That Twitter-Tantrums Together
Donald Trump, Jr. has been temporarily suspended from Twitter after he posted a tweet that violates the company’s rules against spreading false information about the coronavirus.
“The account will be suspended for 12 hours,” VICE reports, “during which time Don Jr. will be barred from posting new messages, liking or retweeting other posts. He will still be allowed to use Twitter’s Direct Message service to contact his followers. A Twitter spokesperson said this was not a suspension, that it was a ‘temporary lockout until the Tweet is deleted—not a suspension.'”
The offending tweet Trump Jr. posted has been deleted.
It included a link to a video that “showed a group of people dressed in white lab coats claiming to be from an organization called ‘America’s Frontline Doctors.’ The video, which was live-streamed by right-wing news outlet Breitbart, contained people claiming masks were not needed and that hydroxychloroquine was a ‘cure,'” VICE adds.
GOP strategist Andrew Surabian, called “Steve Bannon’s political right hand” by POLITICO, posted the message Trump Jr. purportedly received. He wrongly claims Twitter is engaging in “open election interference.”
President Trump overnight retweeted at least one of his son’s tweets that linked to the video. Twitter deleted the retweet.
President Donald Trump spent another late night pushing conspiracy theories on Twitter.
Shortly before 11 p.m. on Monday, the leader of the free world attacked those protesting his Department of Homeland Security agents in Portland as “sick and deranged.”
And then he focused his attention on Hydroxychloroquine.
Trump retweeted more than a dozen tweets pushing Hydroxychloroquine, with some describing it as some sort of miracle “cure” for the COVID-19 pandemic.
One account Trump retweeted twice is by somebody who does not bill themselves as a doctor, but as, “Conservative, Trumpublican, Wife, mother and Child of the Most High God.”
Another tweet came from somebody claiming to be the brother of disgraced former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
One of the accounts billed herself as a “sh*t talker extraordinaire.”
Another retweet was of a writer for a right-wing magazine in Australia and yet another of a meteorologist in Texas.
Trump also retweeted an attack on Dr. Tony Fauci from Steve Bannon’s podcast.
And he retweeted Mike Flynn’s defense attorney calling for the drug to be sold prescription-free, over the counter.
Frustrated Fauci forced to go on TV to defend himself after Trump tweets false claim he ‘misled the American public’
These insane tweets send some in the tRump administration running for cover.
Two weeks ago, Navarro caused a stir by writing an op-ed in USA TODAY claiming that Fauci “has been wrong about everything.” The ensuing controversy caused the White House to distance from Navarro.
What a way to run the worlds most powerful government; On Twitter.