Texas commissioner deletes tweet calling Clinton the C word
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller’s campaign deleted a lewd tweet on Tuesday that called Hillary Clinton a “c***.”
Miller, a statewide official running for reelection, had apparently used the insult while touting poll results that showed Donald Trump doing surprising well against Clinton in Pennsylvania.
“TRUMP 44,” the tweet read. “C*** 43.”
“Go Trump Go!” the Republican exclaimed.
Miller’s office told the San Antonio Express-News that the commissioner’s account had been hacked, and that everyone with access to his tweets was in the same room with Miller when the message went out.
“We’re trying to get to the bottom of it. We think we’ve been hacked,” Mark Loeffler, Miller’s communications director, told the newspaper. “No one from the Sid Miller organization would ever put anything like that on Twitter,” Loeffler said.
Another Miller spokesman, Todd Smith, told Austin’s American-Statesman that a hacker was to blame for the message.
“I can tell you with all assurance, 100 percent, that Commissioner Miller is not involved in sending any tweet that would have used the filthy language that was included in that,” Smith said. “Someone obviously went on our account and got into it.”
But Miller’s staff later released a statement saying the post was shared by mistake: “The campaign was retweeting information on Twitter today and inadvertently retweeted a tweet that they were not aware contained a derogatory term. The tweet was taken down as soon as possible. Commissioner Miller finds the term vulgar and offensive and apologizes to anyone who may have seen it.”
Miller has a history of making provocative and controversial statements. Earlier this year, he shared a fake Facebook photo of President Obama holding a Che Guevara T-shirt.
