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Transportation secretary's Twitter account deletes tweet telling Dem lawmaker to sue Trump
Washington Examiner ^ | 3/22/17 | Caitlin Yilik

Posted on 03/22/2017 3:11:14 PM PDT by markomalley

The Twitter account of Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao briefly posted a peculiar tweet on Wednesday responding to Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, who has told President Trump to prepare for impeachment.

"SUE HIS VERY SOUL MAXINE!!!" Chao tweeted.

Chao's tweet was deleted after about 15 minutes.

"Get ready for impeachment," Waters tweeted Tuesday.

"The tweet was posted by an employee with access to the account. The employee took action outside of his scope of work and duties and without any approvals. We are taking appropriate action," a Department of Transportation spokesperson said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.


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To: markomalley

Could it be a hack job? Or possibly meant as a joke? Trying to extend the benefit of doubt here. 8>)


61 posted on 03/22/2017 4:20:31 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Hugin

To wake you up !


62 posted on 03/22/2017 4:21:12 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: catnipman
Apparently 99.9% of FReepers believe that reading JUST the headlines sufficiently informs them to post commentary.

Agreed. And thus my comment:

Having said that, not reading the post has been FReeper tradition for so long, it won't ever change...

63 posted on 03/22/2017 4:21:28 PM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: unixfox

Elaine Chao is an employee with access to the account.


64 posted on 03/22/2017 4:22:15 PM PDT by Piranha (Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have - Saul Alinsky)
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To: miss marmelstein

SPOT ON !!!!!!!!!!!!


65 posted on 03/22/2017 4:22:51 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: b4its2late

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...it was those pesky RUSSIANS. *snicker*


66 posted on 03/22/2017 4:23:29 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: miss marmelstein

It was a concession to try to get McConnell as an ally. Not a bad thing to do, but Mitch is a worse snake than the President realized.


67 posted on 03/22/2017 4:24:13 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: catnipman

And just WHY should we believe THAT?


68 posted on 03/22/2017 4:24:42 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

I don’t know. Today, there were freepers who don’t know who David Brock is. Some people live under rocks.


69 posted on 03/22/2017 4:27:31 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Hugin
Am I the only one who sees that tweet as sarcasm? Whoever tweeted it, it sounds like mockery to me.

That's the obvious inference. The account manager probably deleted the tweet out of concern that it would be read they way dozens of baying freepers did.

70 posted on 03/22/2017 4:29:04 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: madison10

I agree.


71 posted on 03/22/2017 4:29:15 PM PDT by Bigg Red (The LORD of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob. Ps 46:12)
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To: catnipman; nopardons

And if you read the totality of the posts, you would have seen that some of us are rejecting that idea.


72 posted on 03/22/2017 4:29:19 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: miss marmelstein

Oh good grief....how is that possible? Oh never mind...I’ve seen worse, of late. :-(


73 posted on 03/22/2017 4:34:35 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: miss marmelstein

With good reasoning behind us.


74 posted on 03/22/2017 4:35:40 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Amazing, right?

I suspect Chao - like that Comey guy - enjoys one too many margaritas at night and then gets frisky on her twitter account.


75 posted on 03/22/2017 4:38:07 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: nopardons
No...she’s a POS and so is her turtle husband!

I agree with you regarding her husband, but I read the 'tweat' as dripping in sarcasm. But apparently I'm the only one who thinks that to be the case. If she was serious - yes she needs to be fired - but I believe it was just a polite 'FU' to the crazy Congresswoman from South Central.

76 posted on 03/22/2017 4:42:34 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: markomalley

Looks like an opportunity to bring up my proposal to move DOT to New Orleans.


77 posted on 03/22/2017 4:47:12 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: miss marmelstein
Chao, Comey, and 1,000s of others need to be FIRED on the spot! And I don't, FOR A N.Y. SECOND, believe that she was drunk nor even slightly tipsy.

Otherwise, there's no reason why anyone, here, should be happy that Trump won last November.

78 posted on 03/22/2017 4:55:59 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: El Cid
Oh hell yes, she was serious and WHY you and some other posters, can't/refuse to see that and give this B*TCH the "benefit of the doubt" and make all kinds of pathetic excuses for her, I can not fathom.

And IF ( BIG IF ), someone else used her twitter account ( yeah...and Hillary Clinton is a beautiful, kind, truthful, brilliant, caring woman ), then she is even MORE guilty, for allowing ANYONE else to know her info!

79 posted on 03/22/2017 5:00:01 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: markomalley

If this was an actual tweet by Chao, and not someone else who had access to her account, she needs to be fired IMMEDIATELY.


80 posted on 03/22/2017 5:04:41 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative
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