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"):
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Trump makes everything cool ...
“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”
That certainly is an offensive quote...to sheep.
Your guys are so funny.
Your posts are having zero effect on reducing support for Trump.
You are a tool.
Your posts are having zero effect on reducing support for Trump.Of course not. The Trump cultists are beyond reason.
When will Hillary disavow Malcolm X?
What a liar!
Trump had no idea it was a Mussolini quote.
Mussolini brushed his teeth 3 times per day...
Donald Trump brushes his teeth 3 times per day...
Mussolini liked dogs...
Trump likes dogs...
Mussolini had a big black car...
Trump has a big black car...
Amateur, silly Yellow Journalism.
So tell us. Are you “Lion or a Sheep?”
A Lion
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. Alexander the Great
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/sheep.html
This is stupid. So every phrase ever uttered by Hitler and Mussolini is out of bound because they once said it? This is PC run amok
No kidding - but Trump has TURNED THE TABLES on PC, by leading by example.
For people that may have gravitated there in the past, they now know they’re being manipulated. So the people that get all spun up about an alleged Mussolini quote are NOT Trump supporters. Same with his KKK non-comment today...Trump smelled some kind of trap, so he stayed clear.
But the flip side of that is fun. The media and the GOPe run around huffing and puffing all day that, in the end, the media forgets that Cruz/Rubio even exist, much less get any airtime to them - so we get the last laugh.
At this point, the ONLY WAY that a wedge can be driven between Trump and his supporters is if Trump waffles on Immigration - and he has not shown ANY SIGN of waffling. The other attempts are hopeless.
Terrorists yell Allah Akbar. I love to see the PC police demand everyone disavow those phrases.
“Terrorists yell Allah Akbar. I love to see the PC police demand everyone disavow those phrases.”
Yep...the SAME WORDS heard on the flight recorders (the ones recovered) from 9/11...
I've seen people punched in the mouth for being smart alecks.
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