Texas official uses obscenity for Clinton on Twitter

Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, who backs Trump, removes, apologizes for derogatory term

By AP 2 November 2016, 9:58 am

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Texas Republican and the state's agriculture commissioner Sid Miller. (Courtesy)

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller has deleted a post on his official Twitter account that used an obscenity to refer to Hillary Clinton.

The Republican posted a purported presidential poll from Pennsylvania showing Donald Trump with 44 percent and Clinton 43. But rather than saying “Clinton,” the tweet included a sexually explicit, derogatory term for women.

It was deleted about 10 minutes later. A subsequent post said “the campaign was retweeting” information and “inadvertently” posted a derogatory term. It added: “Commissioner Miller finds the term vulgar and offensive” and apologized.

A Trump supporter, Miller’s Twitter bio describes himself as a “deplorable.” Clinton once derided “half” of Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables.”

Last year, a later-deleted post on Miller’s campaign Facebook page appeared to endorse a nuclear bombing of “the Muslim world.”