Another day, another embarrassing social-media fail by the Donald’s campaign team. First up, the setup where the account @RussianNavalBlog sent this (seemingly) adoring tweet to Donald Trump:
https://twitter.com/russiannavyblog/status/623370628901568513
Which Trump’s team then RT’d to his followers (Update: It looks like he deleted the tweet, so we added a screenshot:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/623370882652704768
Screenshot:
The “bad ass Vietnam vet,” however, was convicted of murder in 1979:
.@realDonaldTrump you just RTed a picture of Jeffrey MacDonald, army doc who killed his pregnant wife & 2 daughters. https://t.co/bTGPxxmQwB
— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) July 21, 2015
Leave it to @realDonaldTrump to RT army doc who killed his pregnant wife & 2 daughters! @russiannavyblog @ConnorBaldwin21 @greggory_mc
— Trump's an Evil Monster (@DkChoco) July 21, 2015
@realDonaldTrump @russiannavyblog @ConnorBaldwin21 If that's your dad, I don't think he's allowed to vote.http://t.co/xL910PWLzM
— Andrew S. (@shoutingboy) July 21, 2015
@realDonaldTrump @russiannavyblog @ConnorBaldwin21 Did you just retweet a picture of a murderer? http://t.co/pnBdYUFbH4
— Manny DelaCruz (@MannyDelac) July 21, 2015
Oops.
This is reminiscent of last week’s social media mistake where Trump’s account tweeted out a picture with Nazi soldiers in it. That mistake was eventually blamed on an intern:
Did 'dingus' Donald Trump seriously use Nazis in his campaign poster? [screenshot] http://t.co/qwu3ghr7dm
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) July 14, 2015
For posterity, since I assume Trump's tweet is not long for this world: pic.twitter.com/KChm7XK8OG
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) July 14, 2015
Trump campaign responds: An intern did it. pic.twitter.com/oZBJAtwffl
— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) July 14, 2015
Time to get some new interns?
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