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Sunday, July 24, 2016
US general retweets — and deletes — anti-Semitic Twitter post
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA retired US general who spoke at last week’s Republican National Convention gets slammed on Twitter for retweeting a post that appears to blame Jews for the recent leak of Democratic National Committee emails.
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn later deletes the tweet and issues an apology.
“The corrupt Democratic machine will do and say anything to get #NeverHillary into power. This is a new low,” writes Flynn in the original post, in a message that attaches a tweet from an account under the name Saint Bibiana.
The attached tweet appears to mock a claim by Hillary Clinton campaign that Russia is behind the leak of DNC emails in order to embarrass the party and help get Donald Trump elected. It goes on to imply that Jews are actually behind the release of the emails.
“CNN implicated. The USSR is to blame!, the tweet reads, adding: “Not anymore, Jews. Not anymore.”
https://twitter.com/30PiecesofAG_/status/757210685801496577
In his apology tweet, Flynn says he only intended to tweet the link to a CNN article included in the anti-Semitic message.
“This is what was meant to be retweeted…the earlier retweet was a mistake,” Flynn writes. “My sincerest apologies.”
All, this is what was meant to be retweeted…the earlier retweet was a mistake. My sincerest apologies. https://t.co/0s1OqEC3gr
— General Mike Flynn (@GenFlynn) July 24, 2016
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