President Trump
Donald John TrumpThe Hill's Morning Report - White House, Congress: Urgency of now around budget GOP presses Trump to make a deal on spending Democrats wary of handing Trump a win on infrastructure MORE’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani claimed Tuesday that Twitter allowed someone to hack his tweet to plant a hyperlink to a site critical of Trump.
In a tweet sent on Nov. 30, Giuliani took shots at special counsel Robert Mueller
Robert (Bob) Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud choice of Mueller to lead Russia probe MORE, calling for “supervision” of his investigation because he filed indictments at inconvenient times for Trump.
The link Giuliani included in his tweet redirected straight to a page displaying only the words “Donald J. Trump is a traitor to our country.”
Four days later, Giuliani acknowledged the link and blamed Twitter.
“Twitter allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message,” he tweeted Tuesday evening.
Twitter allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message. The same thing-period no space-occurred later and it didn’t happen. Don’t tell me they are not committed cardcarrying anti-Trumpers. Time Magazine also may fit that description. FAIRNESS PLEASE
— Rudy Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) December 5, 2018
Social media users pointed out that what likely happened was that someone bought a domain name matching the inadvertent link for the purpose of posting an anti-Trump message to troll Giuliani.
Twitter users were left scratching their heads at Giuliani's statement.
What actually happened: Giuliani’s tweet contained a grammatical error that just so happened to resemble a url with a .in domain that, completely outside of Twitter, was quickly purchased by someone who created a website that displayed the “disgusting anti-President message.” https://t.co/NbRKpcXpcF
— Briän Ries (@moneyries) December 5, 2018
What do these words mean? https://t.co/myjYRFgbXm
— Brian SchatzBrian Emanuel SchatzBullock: Running for Senate 'never really got me excited' Cruz asks Trump FAA pick to 'be pissed off' about Boeing crash deaths San Francisco becomes first city to ban facial recognition technology MORE (@brianschatz) December 5, 2018
Just tried to buy helsinki.either.
— David Jolly (@DavidJollyFL) December 5, 2018
Didn't work.
(You'll only get it if you get it. ) https://t.co/FfgvhUf45W
good time for a reminder that trump originally named giuliani as his cybersecurity adviser https://t.co/yhs4m9JmY2
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) December 5, 2018
when your racist grandpa uses the tweeter machine https://t.co/Khb0xZYFhu
— shauna (@goldengateblond) December 5, 2018
Giuliani is turning a typo into a full on conspiracy theory tonight. https://t.co/SZmTMD7guW
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 5, 2018
Updated on Dec. 5 at 10:13 a.m.
