Dem Candidate Gives Pathetic Excuse On Why He Deleted Thousands Of Tweets
Texas Lt. Governor candidate Matthew Dowd was ambushed in the most unlikely of places Monday. The Democrat was grilled on CNN for deleting thousands of tweets. He first tried to blow it off as a 'conservative conspiracy', but surprisingly enough, CNN host Brianna Keilar didn't let it slide that easily.
Dowd claimed that it was a “conspiracy theory” conjured up by Fox News before almost immediately admitting that he deleted up to 270,000 “old tweets.”
“But why?” Keilar asked.
“Cleaning up my files long before I even thought about running in this race,” he claimed. “But again, it’s a typical Fox thing to turn to some conspiracy, thinking it has more meaning than it actually does.”
“Why did you do it, then?” Keilar asked.
“I just said, Brianna, I did it because I just wanted to clean up all of my files and get rid of all of the stuff that had accumulated over time,” he claimed. “There’s no reason.”
“I understand that, but this isn’t like emptying your e-mail inbox, to be clear, getting rid of all your old e-mails,” she continued.
Keilar again pressed Dowd, asking, why he deleted the tweets knowing that doing so would “illicit scrutiny.”
“So, what I think is happening, Brianna, and I think it’s unfortunate, is Fox News does this, which is dreams up some conspiracy theory, as they always do, which is obviously not — has nothing to do with anything of what we’re talking about. And then people begin to repeat it,” he claimed. “Again, I cleaned up my inbox in, I think, it was May or June — just deleted all my old tweets. I have — I think I have 5,000 sitting there. And so, I just think we shouldn’t play into Fox’s new sort of conspiracy theories.”
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Matthew Dowd said he “just decided” earlier in the summer to delete his old tweets and said it’s a “conspiracy theory” to suggest otherwise.
He deleted around 175,000 tweets a few months before his campaign announcement. This isn’t hard to figure out. pic.twitter.com/3h7NUOSry5
— Cameron Cawthorne (@Cam_Cawthorne) October 4, 2021
The targeted Dem was clearly feeling targeted as he became visibly upset: 'You've asked three times, I've answered three times", insisting again that there is nothing suspicious about suddenly deleting 175,000 tweets.