September 30, 2016 | No Comments
Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee dangerously armed with 140-character strikes, hailed Twitter as a contemporary strategy that he finds “very effective.”
“Well, I think tweet — you know, well Twitter is really a modern-day form of communication,” Trump explained to WZZM 13 in an interview Friday. “It’s one way you communicate, whereas, you know, two years ago, five years ago, 20 years ago, you wouldn’t have this. But now it’s a modern-day way of communicating. I find it very effective.”
Indeed, Trump’s day of tweeting Friday began at 3:20 a.m. with an assault on the media for using unnamed sources. “Anytime you see a story about me or my campaign saying ‘sources said,’ DO NOT believe it. There are no sources, they are just made up lies!” Trump warned his supporters.
By 5:30 a.m., the real estate mogul had attacked Hillary Clinton and former Miss Universe Alicia Machado by suggesting in a series of tweets that Clinton helped Machado gain citizenship so she could invoke her during Monday’s presidential debate. He also accused the beauty pageant queen of having a sex tape while also alluding to “her past, which is terrible,” a veiled reference at an accomplice-to-murder allegation his former campaign manager broached Thursday.
By noon, Trump had attacked the media again for unnamed sources, as well as newspapers in Dallas, Arizona and USA Today that endorsed Clinton or “disendorsed” him.
In the afternoon, he delivered a message to everyone who had something to say about his early tweets. “For those few people knocking me for tweeting at three o’clock in the morning, at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call!” he wrote, taking a dig at Clinton’s stamina.