Trump’s Tweeting Isn’t Crazy. It’s Strategic, Typos and All.

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A network of right-wing operatives and activists — and the president himself — spread disinformation about Joe Biden with one simple hashtag.

In the morning hours of Oct. 30, as most of the country slept, President Trump was binge tweeting again.

At 2:32 a.m., he told his 87.3 million Twitter followers: “Way ahead in Texas! Watch the Great Red Wave!”

Minutes later, he tweeted the hashtag #BidenCrimeFamiily, with a typo in the word “family.” That was it. No context, no link. Continue reading.