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.
Jeebus on a Triscuit! The only thing worse than their incompetence is their racism.
Why anyone is surprised is beyond me. He has said some horrible things about Obama
Okay, no big stretch to see that this was going to happen but I did call this yesterday. There was no way that Trump or his surrogates would let a “lynch” tie-in go by without taking a swing.
Paladino, the man who wanted to convert abandoned prisons in NY state to low income housing to move some of the “undesirables” out of the city. Yeah, I’m sure this was just a newbie’s twitter error…
Amazing how Trump brings out the well intentioned worst in people.
It’s not called Twitter for nothing.