Twitter Boots Fake Account Promoted Today By Trump

July 8, 2019 Idiocracy, Trump Lies

Mediaite reports:

On June 4, President Donald Trump ripped actress Bette Midler as a “sick scammer” for sharing a statement on Twitter falsely attributed to the commander-in-chief. One month later, President Trump shared a statement on Twitter falsely attributed to former President Ronald Reagan.

Trump tweeted the quote on Monday morning from an account purporting to represent the Reagan Battalion — a conservative news site. Only, the account was phony (it has seven followers) and so too was the quote it tweeted on Feb. 20, 2017 — superimposed over a picture of Trump and Reagan shaking hands.

To sum up, Trump dug up a two year old tweet from a now-banned fake account to promote a fake Ronald Reagan quote. His original tweet is still online at this writing.

Cute! https://t.co/ylJfs6hh9g

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 8, 2019

#BREAKING: Fake President Tweets Out Fake Reagan Quote https://t.co/GV3cMuJDNp

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) July 8, 2019