A tired journalist's response to Trump Jr.'s emails has spawned a great meme
With a simple string of tweets, a year's worth of work vanished for Jared Yates Sexton, an independent journalist chasing a story about Donald Trump Jr. and his communication with a Russian lawyer.
And with a simple tweet from Sexton following the chaos of Trump Jr.'s emails, a meme was born.
"I...worked on this story for a year...and...he just...he tweeted it out," Sexton wrote on Twitter Tuesday, explaining that he spent a long time chasing sources and hitting "dead ends" before Trump Jr. tweeted the proof of collusion between the Trump family and Russia.
I...worked on this story for a year...and...he just...he tweeted it out.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 11, 2017
Now, his exasperated remark has taken a life on it's own and the tweets are hilarious.
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Folks have been taking random comments on Twitter and repurposing Sexton's real frustration into funny tweets.
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i have worked
on this story
for a year
which
you were
probably saving
for your website
forgive me
for just
tweeting it out— rob (@robarcand) July 12, 2017
If only someone really did do a year's worth of research into Ted Cruz's tweet about a cow made of butter.
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That's the kind of journalism we really need now more than ever.
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