Cheeto's official tweets are now written by a man who regularly promotes fake stories on Twitter..

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-twitter-potus-account-fake-news-dan-scavino-white-house-a7540266.html



The man behind Donald Trump’s official presidential tweets is a former golf caddy who has repeatedly promoted fake news stories and conspiracy theories on social media.

The man behind Donald Trump’s official presidential tweets is a former golf caddy who has repeatedly promoted fake news stories and conspiracy theories on social media.

The official President of the United States (POTUS) Twitter page was updated on Sunday to confirm the messages are being posted by Dan Scavino, Mr Trump’s “assistant” and Director of Social Media.

Mr Scavino has used his own Twitter page to publish a number of untrue posts, including one of a video he said showed Syrian refugees in Germany holding a rally in support of Isis. The event was actually a protest against a German far-right group. He has also repeatedly shared content from conspiracy theory websites and fake news organisations, including InfoWars - a website whose founder, Alex Jones, believes the 9/11 attacks were an “inside job” carried out by the US government, that a number of other terrorist attacks on US soil were also the responsibility of the government, and that Osama in Laden was a CIA asset.

Mr Jones has also claimed vaccines are part of a “soft kill” and “covert sterilisation” programme intended to murder “massive numbers” of children, that the government is trying to “encourage homosexuality with chemicals so that people don’t have children”, and that Michelle Obama is a man.Other conspiracies promoted by Mr Jones and InfoWars include claims the US government has built a weather machine enabling it to create national disasters and “steer tornados”, that Hilary Clinton is possessed by demons and that Beyonce is funded by the CIA to create a police state.

The POTUS Twitter page was updated on Sunday with a heading that reads: “45th @POTUS @realDonaldTrump. Working on behalf of the American people to make our country great again. Tweets by Dan Scavino. Tweets by POTUS signed -DJT.”