A top surrogate for Donald Trump’s campaign said Wednesday that a tweet which appeared to call for Attorney General Loretta Lynch to be lynched was a “well-intentioned mistake.”
Carl Paladino, Trump’s New York co-chair, tweeted on Wednesday: “Lynch @LorettaLynch let a Grand Jury decide.”
Paladino deleted the tweet and replaced it with “@LorettaLynch let a Grand Jury decide.”
In another tweet, a staffer told a reporter that the tweet went out in error.
@wgrzMichael I work for Carl, I’m new to twitter & tweeted what Carl asked but made mistake of adding Lynch. My bad.
— Carl Paladino (@CarlPaladino) July 6, 2016
“It was bad wording by an assistant trying to send it direct to Lorretta [sic] Lynch. Liberal progressives have their underware [sic] all bunched up,” Paladino said in a response emailed to ABC News.
Paladino, a former gubernatorial candidate, has made numerous racially-tinged remarks in the past. Appearing as a Trump surrogate in April, he called the presumptive GOP nominee an “exterminator” who would get “the raccoons out of the basement,” which was read as a racist remark directed at President Obama.
