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Edward Snowden's first Twitter troll: Republican candidate George Pataki
Source: The Guardian
Edward Snowden's first Twitter troll: Republican candidate George Pataki
The long-shot presidential contender called the NSA whistleblower a ‘traitor’while Snowden chose to engage Neil DeGrasse Tyson in conversation instead
Ben Jacobs in Manchester, New Hampshire
Tuesday 29 September 2015 23.48 BST
It didn’t take long after Edward Snowden joined Twitter for the NSA whistleblower to acquire his first Twitter troll: Republican presidential long-shot George Pataki.
Pataki, the former three-term governor of New York who has languished at the bottom of polls so far in this presidential campaign, went after Snowden in a series of tweets on Tuesday.
The New York Republican initially greeted Snowden’s arrival by Twitter by calling him “a traitor”.
Pataki then went on to call on Twitter to delete Snowden’s account.
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The long-shot presidential contender called the NSA whistleblower a ‘traitor’while Snowden chose to engage Neil DeGrasse Tyson in conversation instead
Ben Jacobs in Manchester, New Hampshire
Tuesday 29 September 2015 23.48 BST
It didn’t take long after Edward Snowden joined Twitter for the NSA whistleblower to acquire his first Twitter troll: Republican presidential long-shot George Pataki.
Pataki, the former three-term governor of New York who has languished at the bottom of polls so far in this presidential campaign, went after Snowden in a series of tweets on Tuesday.
The New York Republican initially greeted Snowden’s arrival by Twitter by calling him “a traitor”.
George E. Pataki
@GovernorPataki
Some say you have courage, I saw real courage on #Sept11 You are just a traitor who put American lives at risk. https://twitter.com/snowden/status/648890134243487744 …
12:22 PM - 29 Sep 2015
@GovernorPataki
Some say you have courage, I saw real courage on #Sept11 You are just a traitor who put American lives at risk. https://twitter.com/snowden/status/648890134243487744 …
12:22 PM - 29 Sep 2015
Pataki then went on to call on Twitter to delete Snowden’s account.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/29/edward-snowden-twitter-george-pataki-republican
