Far-right provocateur Ann Coulter wants to expose Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D), a U.S. Senate candidate, for deleting a tweet of himself proudly displaying a marijuana flag. The problem is…the pro-legalization gubernatorial nominee did not in fact delete the tweet.
Coulter’s Substack post is titled “The Tweet John Fetterman Doesn’t Want You to See.”
The entire post is premised on the idea that the official is trying to hide a photo he posted in January that shows him cloaked in rainbow flags to support the LGBTIQA+ community while holding a novelty flag with cannabis leaves and the words “DON’T TREAD ON WEED,” a play on the 1775 Gadsden flag that was designed during the American Revolution.
The conservative pundit and self-described polemicist has regularly embraced the drug war and demeaned marijuana consumers. She’s said that cannabis “makes people retarded” and that legalization is “destroying the country.” So it’s not surprising that she’s taken issue with the Democratic gubernatorial candidate’s reform advocacy; however, the post about Fetterman’s flag tweet is flagrantly untrue.
The supporting evidence she used to back up the suggestion about the deleted tweet is a screenshot from Twitter that says “Something went wrong. Try reloading.” It shows
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