After former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore defeated Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) in the Republican primary Tuesday night, President Donald Trump was quick to ditch Strange and rally behind Moore.
After firing off a tweet congratulating Moore in his victory in the race, Trump deleted several tweets he sent earlier in the day urging Alabama voters to re-elect Strange to the Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The deleted tweets were captured by Politwoops, a tool that collects politicians’ deleted tweets currently run by ProPublica.
Trump backed Strange, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) choice to hold the Senate seat, early on in the race, but several prominent Trump supporters, like Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, campaigned for Moore, an ultra-conservative Republican who has been kicked off the Alabama supreme court twice.
After initially endorsing Strange, Trump appeared to hesitate and wavered on plans to hold a rally for Strange in Alabama after polls showed Moore in the lead. However, the President relented, holding a rally for Strange and sending out several since-deleted tweets urging Alabama voters to back Strange.
Hey, Donnie, you are no longer a private individual. You can’t just pull crap like this any more.
Moron.
Ditto.
The Twitter “Delete” button is the new last refuge of (political) cowards.
Is there any possibility of Trump deleting himself?
How much you wanna bet there will be a fight when he realizes that all those gifts he gets as Prez do not belong to HIM but to the COUNTRY??
I’ll bet he’s gonna really cry when he has to hand over that fancy gold chain and medal from the Saudis…