Rep. Steve King steps into Twitter trap.
King was apparently unaware of that when Ken Klippenstein, of the progressive YouTube program The Young Turks, spoofed the Republican firebrand into sharing a message of support for his supposed uncle, Col. Nathan Jessup, who was played in the movie by Jack Nicholson.
“Sir, can I get a retweet for my uncle Col. Nathan Jessup, he’s the Marines and spending the 4th overseas keeping our nation safe,” Klippenstein wrote, sharing a still of the three-time Oscar winner in uniform from the movie in the Fourth of July tweet. King bit, adding in his retweet: “Colonel Jessup and all your Marines: God Bless you all. You have our back and millions of us have yours! God Bless America and all her warrior defending our Liberty! SK.”
But after King shared the tweet, Klippenstein changed his Twitter username to “Steve King is a white supremacist,” which then appeared on King’s timeline.that he’d been fooled not once but twice and deleted the Tweet. But he wasn't fast enough.
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