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TexasTowelie

(112,168 posts)
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 11:47 PM Nov 2017

Trump-tweet target Tom Steyer's impeachment campaign tops 1.3 million signatures

Tom Steyer was sitting on a plane waiting to take off from SFO to LAX last week when he got a text: the president had just tweeted about him.

For most people, having Donald Trump call them out on Twitter as “wacky & totally unhinged” — as the president did of Steyer — isn’t exactly a good way to start your day.

But for Steyer, a billionaire hedge fund chief and philanthropist running an $11 million ad campaign calling for Trump’s impeachment, that tweet was more than welcome — introducing him and his movement to the president’s 41 million followers.

“I think it was a kind of defensive reaction from a guy who under the surface knows he’s doing a terrible job,” Steyer said in an interview on Wednesday.

Read more: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/11/01/tom-steyer-impeachment-ad-campaign-donald-trump/

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Trump-tweet target Tom Steyer's impeachment campaign tops 1.3 million signatures (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2017 OP
Just went and followed that guy myself ismnotwasm Nov 2017 #1
Wow...the moron may have actually assisted his own BigmanPigman Nov 2017 #2
Message auto-removed Name removed Nov 2017 #3
I'm guessing a majority of the half of IMpotus' followers who are bots signed the petition😬 MLAA Nov 2017 #4

ismnotwasm

(41,979 posts)
1. Just went and followed that guy myself
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 11:52 PM
Nov 2017

I don’t follow Trump and co—I see enough through my feed because of other brave souled

BigmanPigman

(51,590 posts)
2. Wow...the moron may have actually assisted his own
Thu Nov 2, 2017, 12:18 AM
Nov 2017

impeachment campaign via his own use of Twitter. That is perfect!

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