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Offline Right_in_Virginia

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Pelosi Deletes Sympathetic Tweet For Jussie Smollett
« on: February 18, 2019, 11:57:01 am »
Pelosi Deletes Sympathetic Tweet For Jussie Smollett
Daily Caller, Feb  17, 2019, Kerry Picket

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi deleted her original tweet sympathetic for “Empire” actor and singer Jussie Smollett amid reports that Smollett may have staged the alleged January 29 attack against himself.

Smollett claimed to law enforcement he went to a local Chicago Subway eatery at 2 a.m., and he was physically assaulted by two men in ski masks who poured a bleach-like substance on him and tied a rope around his neck like a noose.

Smollett, who is gay and black, also told police his attackers yelled racial and homophobic slurs at him as well as told him, “This is MAGA country.”





https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/17/pelosi-deletes-tweet-jussie-smollett/

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Re: Pelosi Deletes Sympathetic Tweet For Jussie Smollett
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2019, 01:42:38 pm »
Combine a rush to judgment and virtue signaling, with encroaching dementia, and there you have it...the modern democrat party. A contradiction in terms, as they are neither modern nor democratic.

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Re: Pelosi Deletes Sympathetic Tweet For Jussie Smollett
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2019, 02:45:17 pm »
The Republic is lost.

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Re: Pelosi Deletes Sympathetic Tweet For Jussie Smollett
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2019, 06:50:03 pm »
Combine a rush to judgment and virtue signaling, with encroaching dementia, and there you have it...the modern democrat party. A contradiction in terms, as they are neither modern nor democratic.

You said it all @aligncare   I would hate to have been between those types and a tweet or microphone when they rushed to pile on the mean MAGA people who hurt their precious boy.

The rush was not quite so great when they tried to walk back or ignore and deny all the dumb things they said.
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Re: Pelosi Deletes Sympathetic Tweet For Jussie Smollett
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2019, 07:56:21 pm »
Cory Booker didn't quite know what to say, but he said it anyway.

Basically, Smollett was a liar and a conspiracy maker who hired two people to commit a fraud for publicity,  but, but, but ... there are a lot of Trump supporters roaming the streets at 2 AM, armed with bleach and a rope, who would attack Smollett if given a chance.
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Re: Pelosi Deletes Sympathetic Tweet For Jussie Smollett
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2019, 08:32:37 pm »
Hmmmm.... being from her official speaker account, there may be an issue with the legality of deleting that under the Government Records Retention Act. I don't think this has ever been tested with something like Twitter, but, for example, it would be illegal for her to delete an official email or text message.

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Re: Pelosi Deletes Sympathetic Tweet For Jussie Smollett
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2019, 11:23:21 pm »
Hmmmm.... being from her official speaker account, there may be an issue with the legality of deleting that under the Government Records Retention Act. I don't think this has ever been tested with something like Twitter, but, for example, it would be illegal for her to delete an official email or text message.

You forgot ... laws don't apply to her.
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