If it weren’t for the late night comedians, I probably would have never heard about Mitt Romney’s Twitter alter ego Pierre Delecto. It seems that the occasional Trump critic used a pseudonym on Twitter to criticize Trump.
Or, more precisely, to make the point that Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) does stand up to Trump. You know, with tweets and comments to reporters. If only Mitt Romney had a position in government where he could actually do something about Trump’s lawlessness...
At least that’s the impression I get from Monica Hesse’s column for the Washington Post. Romney gave hints about the secret account, and when it was discovered, he locked it down, so I can’t read it firsthand anymore.
A close reading of Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account initially doesn’t reveal that much. Under the nom de plume Pierre Delecto — a name choice for which we have set aside some time to discuss separately — the Utah senator tweeted only 10 times.
“Pierre” said nothing salacious. He composed no thoughtful threads. He instead occupied himself with the nitpicky minutiae one might expect from a retiree wielding his first social media account. ...
The oddest aspect of Mitt Romney’s secret Twitter account was the fact that it existed at all — that a genuinely powerful man with the time-honored platform of a U.S. Senate seat and a well-established brand as the 2012 GOP presidential nominee had chosen to become a lurker in order to communicate his positions.
This reminds me: I gotta check in on Devin Nunes’ cow, who has commented on the recent unmasking of Pierre Delecto.
Devin Nunes’ cow retweets a lot. Quite helpfully, the cow retweeted a link to the Trump Conflict of Interest Tracker.
Devin Nunes’ cow’s pinned tweet is about the legal fund. In case you’ve forgotten (and with all the crap that’s going on, that would be understandable), the thin-skinned Rep. Devin Nunes (R-California, U. S. House District 22) has sued his own cow.
On the same day in August Nunes went to court for a hearing on the lawsuit, Phil Arballo (D) suggested Nunes should also sue him. More recently, Arballo, out of abundant concern for Nunes’s fragile ego, urged his followers not to post their favorite tweet about the hopefully soon-to-be lame duck Republican congressman.
Lastly, as of today, Devin Nunes’ skin has only tweeted once.
Did Colbert’s staff forget the password for that account?