Matt Gaetz Deletes Lee Harvey Oswald Tweet After Top Conservatives Tricked

[Judi Lynn]

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Source: Newsweek

Anders Anglesey 2 hrs ago

Matt Gaetz has deleted a picture of Lee Harvey Oswald after he and several other conservative figures were tricked into retweeting a picture of President John F. Kennedy's assassin on Memorial Day.

Journalist Ken Klippenstein trolled prominent Republicans, including Florida Congressman Rep. Gaetz, American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp and conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza into sharing the picture of the infamous killer.

Klippenstein tweeted at the conservative figures and pretended Oswald, who was pictured wearing his army uniform, was a family member.

He asked Rep. Gaetz: "Congressman, my grandpa's a big fan of yours and is a veteran, he would be thrilled if you could RT this photo of him for Memorial Day. Here he is as a young Private First Class."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/matt-gaetz-deletes-lee-harvey-oswald-tweet-after-top-conservatives-tricked/ar-AAKAxdg?li=BBnb7Kz

[ck4829]

1. Now I'm baffled. Why did he delete it? Wasn't he just talking about "second amendment solutions"...

for people he doesn't like the other day?

Sounds to me like Lee should be a hero in Gaetz's book.

[mountain grammy]

20. Exactly..

[catbyte]

2. In the immortal words of Bugs Bunny,

Or, in this case, a whole gaggle of them.

[jpak]

9. Beat me to it

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[ananda]

12. A Morass of Maroons

[thucythucy]

3. I thought Oswald was a marine.

Great piece of trolling though.

Amazing how thoroughly ignorant conservative "leaders" are about history, and yet how arrogant and self righteous.

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. He was. Ironic the article gets that wrong.

[sarge43]

11. Also got the "undesirable discharge" wrong. No such thing.

There's "general" and "bad conduct or other than honorable", but according to the Wiki article he had an honorable. FWIW

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. Actually, there is. I thought they got dishonorable wrong, but they got this part right.

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth339871/

I learned something today!

[msfiddlestix]

18. Dishonorable Discharges was an official thing in the 60's

A number of Marine Vets I knew personally, came home from Viet Nam, to openly rally and lead demonstrations against the war and had received Dishonorable Discharges. I suspect the Marine Corps issued these discharges for a number of mitigating matters, but none the less, Dishonorable Discharge was definitely a thing.

Didn't know they no longer issue those.

I know of one former General who needs to receive a Dishonorable Discharge post haste: Retired General, Michael Flynn

Which would immediately put an end to his benefits among other things.

[Solly Mack]

4. He is going to pretend it never happened.

[Chainfire]

13. Just like the insurrection

[turbinetree]

6. Hey Candance can I call you Candance.....

.......do you remember this ...let's get the entire right wing involved....

Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/uktZb1yQIrvKsD_Kdi5yCdujuCI=/0x20:3000x1708/720x405/media/img/mt/2020/09/GettyImages_689786452/original.jpg


https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/

[Grokenstein]

7. Why stop at one tweet, PedoGaetz? Delete your account.

Or your existence!

[mahina]

8. From "Matt Gaetz is a pedo" at the top of the tweet.

Maybe he changed his name after asking Gaetz’s to retweet. I dunno. But it was pure fire.

[3825-87867]

10. Some American Traitors -and many pardons!

Informative read.

I'm sure (at least) one will be added over the next few years!


https://historycollection.com/20-acts-of-treason-in-american-history/20/
Traitors]

[bringthePaine]

14. not really a trick when they're just stupid, ignorant fuckheads...

[Major Nikon]

16. Screenshot of the tweet in another thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181515104

[KS Toronado]

17. Thank you for link.

Believe most people would have known who's picture that was.

[Larissa]

19. Gaetz should read American history -- not just look at the pictures

Even if it predates Gaetz, the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald was the first known human killing seen live on broadcast TV. My siblings, and I, all saw it. We were already numb by JFK's assassination. (Immediately after JFK was shot, it was speculated that the Soviets did it and that America was about to be attacked. It seemed feasible as we had just, a year earlier, experienced the Cuban Missile Crisis. We had a fallout shelter in the basement of our grade school. Anyone old enough to remember the air raid drill sirens that would go off once a week?
They were loud as hell.)

[AllaN01Bear]

21. tricked my eye . morass of morans .

and you know that most things can be undeleted as most of us know .

[oldsoftie]

22. Sorry, but Klippenstein was being an asshole.

The QIdiots aside, he asked them to make his grandpa's day by retweeting his picture & they actually did it, something a lot of high profile people would not see or may ignore. So they didnt know it was Oswald, ok. Maybe they should have, but they took the request as a serious one. The guy is a dick for "tricking" them into doing it to get publicity. Especially on Memorial Day.
Ive seen where people ask politicians to take a selfie & just when the pic is taken they flip them off or some other gesture. Even if its someone you dont like, you're just being an ass doing shit like that.

On the other hand, I cant wait to see charges against Gaetz come out. And they better.

[OnlinePoker]

23. I'm really curious what would have happened if it was sent to Democrat politicians

I would hope they would have the common sense to know they were being trolled, but a lot of people just retweet without paying attention to the contents. Too late now. Every politician in DC is going to be on the lookout for these types of tweets for the next little while.

[Omaha Steve]

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