Thread by @conspirator0

Convicted mobster Whitey Bulger was murdered in prison on Tuesday. Although it appears he was murdered by organized-crime-connected figures, critics of the Mueller investigation on Twitter wasted no time trying to connect the murder to Mueller.

cc: @ZellaQuixote

We downloaded tweets containing "Bulger" and "Mueller", resulting in 7631 tweets from 5967 accounts since the time of Bulger's murder.

The retweet network for tweets connecting Bulger's murder to Mueller is interesting. A variety of prominent right-wing accounts are present, but British pro-Kremlin troll @Ian56789 also puts in an appearance. Several of the major accounts are #QAnon fans.

Much like the other major Mueller smear story of the week (the theoretically-imminent allegations hinted at by @JacobAWohl and @Jack_Burkman), Gateway Pundit is front and center. Gateway Pundit's article doesn't directly implicate Mueller, but many of the accounts linking it do.

Who tweeted about a possible connection between Whitey Bulger's murder and Robert Mueller first? Here are the first twenty accounts with tweets containing "Bulger" and "Mueller" since the murder, along with their first tweets on the topic.