I noticed something strange on Twitter this morning, so I started poking around. Here’s what I found.
It started with this tweet from the president, thanking his older sister for publicly supporting him.
So I clicked the link to the website run by conservative commentator Wayne Dupree to read the purported statement from Elizabeth. The article had this odd disclaimer at the top.
And then lower down, the article cites this tweet from an unverified account.
Did the president’s 78-year-old sister join Twitter this month?
The account tweets incessantly about cable news and disloyal Republicans
I’ve asked a spokesman for the Trump Organization whether this is actually the president’s sister.
But it appears that the president’s original tweet — thanking his sister for her support — was responding to a fake account that got picked up in the right-wing echo chamber.
Here’s the answer — it’s not really the president’s sister
So now we know that right-wing media circulated an unverified account purporting to be the president’s sister, and then the president himself shared the coverage rather than confirm that it was, in fact, his sister behind the tweets.
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President Trump takes the podium, says he'll be making the "biggest ever" announcement about prescription drug pricing.
When talking about his new regulation on prescription drugs, President Trump says, "I just hope they keep it. I hope they have the courage to keep it."
Who is "they?" Maybe the next administration?
President Trump says the pharmaceutical industry opposed him during the campaign — "which I won, by the way."
There is no news at this news conference at this point. The only new — and baseless — allegation that I've heard so far is that there was a centralized plan to perpetuate voter fraud in Democratic-run cities.
Rudy Giuliani just recommended that everyone watch "My Cousin Vinny."