Posted on 02/28/2016 5:02:07 PM PST by lowbridge
Donald Trump has been coming under fire for retweeting a quote from Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini on Twitter--and it turns out the whole thing was an elaborate setup by Gawker.
In a Sunday post on Gawker's website, the news organization explains how one staffer created a Twitter bot account that periodically tweeted out quotes from Mussolini and attributed them to Trump. The account has tweeted multiple times a day, only at Trump, since December 2015. (Its photo is a picture of Mussolini photoshopped with Trump's hair.)
"We came up with the idea for that Mussolini bot under the assumption that Trump would retweet just about anything, no matter how dubious or vile the source, as long as it sounded like praise for himself," the story said.
Early on Sunday morning, Trump retweeted a quote from an account with the Twitter handle @ilduce2016, a reference the name Italians knew Mussolini by, "Il Duce" ("the leader"):
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Tag line.
Let's hope that none of the people he would have to deal with as President are as smart as a web-bot!
It’s actually a great quote, no matter who said it.
If Trump had retweeted “workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains,” the left and their lapdog media wouldn’t have said a word.
The quote isn’t even really a Benito quote. He did repeat it, but it’s much older.
>>> “We came up with the idea for that Mussolini bot under the assumption that Trump would retweet just about anything, no matter how dubious or vile the source, as long as it sounded like praise for himself,” the story said. <<<
That’s hilarious!
Chuck Todd On “Meet The Press”: Obviously you didn’t know it was a Mussolini quote
Donald Trump: I don’t care that it was Mussolini, look Mussolini…It was a very good quote. An interesting quote.
Chuck Todd: Do you want to be associated with fascism?
Donald Trump: I want to be associated with interesting quotes
http://www.barstoolsports.com/chicago/donald-trump-accidentally-retweets-mussolini-quote/
The quote dates back to the roman proverbs. A somewhat slightly different wording though. So it didnt originate with Mussolini.
i like this approach
see tag line
I figured it was a setup, just like the Klan t-shirt and Klan robes that democrats and Rubio supporters (is there a difference?) are wearing to Trump events.
They are trying everything under the sun to bring him down. That David Duke endorsement, yeah gee, he wasn’t paid off. And of course the media asks him about about 20 billion times until he says something they like then it’s headline new for the next week “Donald Trump KKK” This ticks me off sooooo much, because they do NOTHING like this to Hillary!
Trump haters can have fun with their liberal friends pulling “gotcha” BS.
The rest of us will worry about fixing this country.
Bingo.
Indeed it is a great quote
But I think Mussolini probably intended it in a predatory manner with himself as the lion and everybody else, the sheep to be slaughtered.
And, Reagan’s ‘trust, but verify’ line was an old Russian/Soviet line.
So what? Who cares?
Actually a variation on Rupert Pupkin’s famous words: better to be a king for a day rather than a schmuck for a lifetime.
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