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crimsongulf » 02 Mar 2020 6:23 pm » wrote:

Chuck Schumer didn't delete tweet criticizing Trump's China travel ban ... because he never wrote it.



Some conservative websites and Twitter users are spreading a false rumor that Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., deleted a tweet from early February criticizing President Donald Trump for banning some forms of travel to and from China.

The tweet was never deleted, because Schumer never sent it.

Yet some conspiracy minded sites used a screenshot of the alleged tweet to seek to criticize Schumer.

"In what amounts to a plea of ‘guilty’ to the charge of being full of crap and criticizing President Trump no matter what he does, Senator Chuck Schumer has deleted his February 5 tweet," started a post on The American Thinker website.

The screenshot says:

"The premature travel ban to and from China by the current administration is just an excuse to further his ongoing war against immigrants. There must be a check and Balance on these restrictions."

Schumer never sent, or deleted the tweet.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2 ... ing-trump/