TX hunters who blamed immigrants actually shot each other: Trump ally helped circulate the #gunfai

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This vile man should NOT be in office!


Judd Legum ‏@JuddLegum 52m52 minutes ago

Texas hunters who blamed immigrants actually shot each other, cops say http://thkpr.gs/5607b0145119




Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, a Trump ally, helped circulate a false story blaming border-crossers for a shootout between hunters in January. CREDIT: AP Photo/Evan Vucci



Texas hunters who blamed immigrants actually shot each other, cops say
A Trump ally helped circulate the #gunfail tall tale

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Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, a Trump ally, helped circulate a false story blaming border-crossers for a shootout between hunters in January. CREDIT: AP Photo/Evan Vucci




Feb 20



..........Miller, who previously courted online infamy with a vulgar tweet about Hillary Clinton during last year’s election campaign, deleted his initial Facebook post about the incident after news broke that police were suspicious of the hunters’ story. But his leap to promote the hunters’ story in the immediate wake of the shootings was more labor-intensive than simply sharing a news report.

Miller’s initial post included two pictures of Daugherty, including one showing him in his hospital bed hooked up to medical machinery. “The aliendswere ambushing the RV that Walker and his wife. He was shot while trying to protect his hunters from the attack. Walker is a man of God and is now a hero,” Miller wrote (sic).

“This is why we need the wall and to secure our borders,” he wrote. (You can see the deleted post for yourself here.)

But Miller’s portrayal of the incident promotes the very paranoia about security along the border that appears to have played a role in the events that put Daughetry and Roberts in the hospital........................



Miller was reportedly being considered as a finalist to head Trump’s Department of Agriculture, up until the president nominated Georgia Republican Sonny Perdue for the job.......................................





********I clicked on the story about his vile Clinton post: Seems he is as big a LIAR as Trump!!




Nov 2, 2016
Trump advisor calls Clinton a c-word on Twitter, provides bogus explanations about how it happened
No, Sid Miller’s account wasn’t hacked.


https://thinkprogress.org/sid-miller-c-word-hillary-clinton-trump-advisor-5c3c432b3251#.ba2xb7hz3



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Sid Miller, the Texas Agriculture Commissioner who was also serves as co-chairman of Donald Trump’s agriculture advisory team, has said a number of strange things, like the time he argued that the Civil War was about free speech, not slavery. But it was still shocking to see him call Hillary Clinton a c-word Tuesday afternoon on Twitter:

The tweet was widely denounced and quickly deleted by Miller. His initial explanation for how it was posted in the first place? He’d been hacked.
@PatrickSvitek

People were rightly skeptical about that explanation, and rightly so, as whoever manages Miller’s Twitter account quickly deleted the “HACKED” tweet, too.

A short time later, the Miller team trotted out a second explanation — the offensive smear appeared on Miller’s account thanks to an errant retweet.

His office released this statement:

[MrScorpio]

1. GOPrs lie

Always.

FDT.

[Initech]

2. Hey what do you know - a literal circular firing squad!

[gratuitous]

3. In a week, the details won't matter

There will be zillions of posts about how armed Mexican gangsters are pouring across the border to shoot defenseless hunters in Texas. It will become an article of faith in certain circles, and we'll never be rid of the lie. The fact that one of these numbskulls shot another numbskull and in turn got shot himself by a third numbskull will be lost in the fog of history.

[Boomerproud]

4. Why are there no consequences for these vicious lies?

Nothing will be done to this man and he will continue to live very comfortably.