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20 hours. That's about how long it took for a picture to make its way from the depths of Reddit to the Twitter account of the president of the United States.
In response to reports that various members of Trump's campaign and transition team met with Russian officials during last year's election, the White House and areas of the pro-Trump internet are zeroing in on a photograph of Senator Chuck Schumer posing with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The photo, they argue, is proof of hypocrisy on the part of Democrats who are calling for further investigations into Trump's Russia ties. This afternoon, the image was tweeted by President Trump with the caption: “We should start an immediate investigation into @SenSchumer and his ties to Russia and Putin. A total hypocrite!”
The image is an AP photograph from September 2003, which appeared in newspapers after Putin visited the first New York gas station of the Russian company, Lukoil. However, before it was tweeted by Trump on Friday, the image gained popularity last night on Reddit and across the fringes of the conservative internet. And while it's not unusual for Trump to tweet from unconventional sources and odd corners of the web, rarely has there been a more clear cut example of how a Trump tweet gets made.
Here's a brief timeline:
Given Reddit's popularity and The_Donald's reputation in among the pro-Trump corners of the internet, the image was quickly up-voted to the top of r/The_Donald and picked up among Trump supporters across the web.
As a number of journalists and Trump Twitter watchers have pointed out, the tweet was sent from an iPhone, potentially signaling that it was tweeted by a staffer (potentially Scavino) rather than Trump himself, who is known to tweet from his Android phone.
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