THIS is a story that should deserve more attention -- Trump re-truths genuine LUNATICS over at Truth Social, resulting in the GOP Candidate and former POTUS posting insane stuff, yes, but also promoting posters who post a LOT of darker stuff that presumably Trump is seeing but deciding yeah, maybe THAT is too much for me to re-post.
This story focuses on Patriot4Life, who has shown up in a number of the Trump Truth Social re-posts I've shared over the last few years. TO BE CLEAR, Trump did NOT re-post the particular post shared in the article below, but he has re-posted a lot of other stuff by this account, giving it a lot more viewers than it would likely otherwise enjoy for its content.
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www.mediamatters.org
"Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly interacted with the Truth Social account “Patriot4Life,” including thanking them and “retruthing” them. Patriot4Life has repeatedly promoted calls for political killings, including recently retruthing an image calling for Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz to be killed.
Trump has interacted with Patriot4Life ("@1776WeThePeople1776") in at least 70 instances on his
social media platform. Those interactions include
thanking the account for a pro-Trump message,
retruthing the account’s call to jail lawmakers,
retruthing what seemed to be an AI image of Trump praying with six fingers,
promoting the account’s claim that “God has chosen” Trump, and retruthing the account’s attacks on
Harris and
Walz,
including an image portraying Harris with a dung beetle body and a darkened face.
Trump also recently retruthed
QAnon-
themed posts from Patriot4Life. (Media Matters has documented how Trump has
promoted QAnon material on Truth Social dozens of times.)
Any Trump follower that sees Trump’s repeat promotions and then visits that account would likely see exhortations for political violence against Trump’s opponents.
Patriot4Life recently retruthed a call to murder Harris and Walz in a woodchipper: