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A new study indicates that President Trump's Twitter rants may be having a negative impact on the very people he's going to need to continue staying loyal to him: Ten months into his presidency, the failure of any one single scandal to sink his administration has led some in the media to suggest that Trump is like "Teflon," with the grime that would stick to other politicians simply slipping right off. But the numbers show that nothing could be further from the truth - Trump's scandals aren't just damaging him, they're causing swing voters to reevaluate both his priorities and the very health of the economy.
The Department of Defense's Twitter account on Thursday retweeted a call for President Donald Trump, as well as Senator Al Franken and Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, to leave politics over sexual assault allegations-something the agency insisted was a mistake. The original tweet from the account @ProudResister said: "The solution is simplea Roy Moore: Step down from the race.
The president let loose on Twitter after a 12-year-old photo showed the Minnesota Democrat appearing to grope a fellow entertainer. Senator Al Franken has been accused of unwanted groping and kissing by model and sportscaster Leeann Tweeden.
Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett, one of President Donald Trump's nominees to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, appeared Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Senate Democrats grilled him over statements made on his popular Twitter feed. Willett appeared with James Ho of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, another nominee to the 5th Circuit, the New Orleans-based federal appeals court.
On Monday night, the Atlantic's Julia Ioffe reported that Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of the President and a senior adviser to his campaign, had exchanged direct messages on Twitter with WikiLeaks during the course of the 2016 race. Trump Jr. quickly released his DM exchanges, which amounted to a number of notes sent from WikiLeaks to Trump Jr. and three responses sent from Trump Jr. to WikiLeaks.
Some fans of the talk show host Sean Hannity posted videos of themselves destroying Keurig coffeemakers and started the social-media hashtag #boycottKeurig after the company announced on Twitter "It's wise to do nothing that alienates a lot of people from buying their products," said Charles Taylor, professor of marketing at Villanova University near Philadelphia, Pa. "It's pretty smart to stay out of the fray."
People on Twitter shared snapshots of themselves at age 14, the age a woman was when she said Senate candidate Roy Moore molested her 40 years ago. In the Washington Post 's story Thursday, four women claimed Moore dated them as teens, including Leigh Corfman, who claimed he plied her with alcohol, kissed and fondled when she was 14. Moore, the GOP candidate to replace Attorney Gen.
Crooked cop Comey just 'came out' on Twitter after hiding under the handle 'Reinhold Niebuhr' for years and he is taunting the Trump administration with cryptic tweets. Comey had the nerve to tweet out Bible scripture in an attempt to taunt Trump saying 'justice will roll down like water..'
Following Tapper's interview with Treasure Secretary Steve Mnuchin this morning in which the CNN anchor pressed Mnuchin on Trump's false claims about the GOP tax plan representing the biggest tax cut in history, TVOne's Roland Martin took to Twitter to inform Tapper that the "media needs to stop with the false claims." Because @jaketapper , media needs to stop with the "false claims."
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump talk as they attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders' summit - AFP US President Donald Trump unleashed a twitter storm from his Asia tour on Sunday, slamming "haters and fools" playing politics with US-Russia ties and declaring that he would never describe North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as "short and fat". Currently on the Vietnam leg of a five-nation sweep through the region, the US president, who has been relatively quiet on Twitter since leaving Washington, put out half-a-dozen tweets in quick succession ahead of his official welcoming ceremony in Hanoi.
Russian agents on Twitter attempted to deflect bad news around President Trump's election campaign in October 2016 and refocused criticism on the mainstream media and the Clinton campaign, according to an exclusive AP analysis of an archive of deleted accounts. Russian agents on Twitter attempted to deflect bad news around President Trump's election campaign in October 2016 and refocused criticism on the mainstream media and the Clinton campaign, according to an exclusive AP analysis of an archive of deleted accounts.
Disguised Russian agents on Twitter rushed to deflect scandalous news about Donald Trump just before last year's presidential election while straining to refocus criticism on the mainstream media and Hillary Clinton's campaign, according to an Associated Press analysis of since-deleted accounts. Tweets by Russia-backed accounts such as "America_1st_" and "BatonRougeVoice" on Oct. 7, 2016, actively pivoted away from news of an audio recording in which Trump made crude comments about groping women, and instead touted damaging emails hacked from Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta.
You can submit a request for verification to Twitter, which says the blue checkmark "lets people know that an account of public interest is authentic." That's so famous people, like politicians and high-profile actors, don't have to worry about others impersonating them online.
A Twitter account misleading Democratic voters in Virginia by telling them they could cast their ballot by text message was active for almost three hours on Tuesday morning before Twitter suspended the account. The account, "MAGA Mike King," was suspended after it tweeted more than a dozen times a graphic purportedly instructing Virginians on how to vote by text and including the logos of the Democratic Party and its gubernatorial candidate, Ralph Northam.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday quickly sought to distance himself from Republican gubernatorial hopeful Ed Gillespie in the Virginia governor's race as Democrat Ralph Northam was projected to win by multiple news outlets. "Ed Gillespie worked hard but did not embrace me or what I stand for," Trump said on Twitter in the midst of his visit to South Korea, as Virginia results continued to roll in, suggesting a comfortable Northam victory.
One of the biggest backlashes to emerge from the Texas church shooting on Sunday revolves around the commonly used platitude of "thoughts and prayers" in response to the attack. It's not the first time that there has been deep criticism about the issue.
A trove of leaked documents made public Sunday purports to show financial ties between Russia and a member of President Trump's cabinet. The leak, called the Paradise Papers, was revealed when the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and its dozens of collaborating news outlets on Sunday published investigations related to them.
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz responded on Twitter to a host of criticisms over comments he made about the Russia probe, telling CNN host and former Hillary Clinton campaign press secretary Brian Fallon "Shame on you" for suggesting he was being paid by President Donald Trump, Lawnewz.com reported Sunday. The tweets came following an appearance by Dershowitz on Fox News' "Fox & Friends" on Saturday.
Sources: Broadcom is considering a bid to acquire Qualcomm for about $70 per share, or $100B+; bid is likely to be made in the coming days - Broadcom is exploring a deal to acquire Qualcomm, according to people familiar with the matter, in what could be the biggest ever takeover of a chipmaker iPhone X teardown reveals TrueDepth camera system, stacked logic board with 3GB RAM, L-shaped dual-cell 2,716mAh battery, and Qi-based inductive charging coil - Ten years ago, Apple introduced the very first iPhone, and changed the world.
Twitter Inc. faced questions on Friday about its approach to internal security after a company employee briefly deactivated U.S. President Donald Trump's account.