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President Trump was renowned for his prolific and infamous use of Twitter to both aid his message and to stir up controversy. But during Tuesday’s The Lead on CNN, host Jake Tapper tried to link someone else’s Instagram controversy to the President. The controversy was sparked by Louise Linton, the wife of Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who got into a heated exchange over a comment left on an Instagram photo.
In the description of the photo, Linton touted all the designer brands she was wearing while getting off a government plane. One person left a snarky comment about how the tax payers were covering the cost of her trip and Linton appeared to be talking down to the commenter in her response.
According to Tapper, that was somehow Trump’s responsibility because of his 2016 campaign messaging. “One of the things I liked about the Trump campaign was the fact he would talk about the forgotten man and the forgotten woman. That is not that,” he exclaimed to his political panel.
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