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Just spoke to @MittRomney on the phone, and asked
him about Pierre Delecto. His only response: "C'est moi." Updated my
story accordingly: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/mitt-romney-middle-impeachment-fight/600373/ …
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pierre delecto may seem
like a weird name for mitt romney to choose for his secret twitter but then you
have to remember this is how he blows out birthday candles
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Many took to social media to make fun of the name, which
reminded users of the Anthony Weiner saga with Carlos Danger. Seth Abramson, a
writer for Newsweek, took to Twitter to joke, “Stop me if you heard this one:
Pierre Delecto, Carlos Danger and John Barron walk into a bar…”
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I think people on both
sides of the aisle can admit that Pierre Delecto is an amazing fake twitter
name.
John Barron was reportedly the name of Trump’s purported
spokesman in the 1980s — actually Trump himself responding to reporters.
The Washington Post, citing the book “Never Enough: Donald Trump and the
Pursuit of Excellence,” reported that Trump’s father, Fred Trump, would also
use a phony spokesman named “Mr. Green.”
Romney, R-Utah, took a series of shots at President Trump
in an interview that aired Sunday, saying that some of the president’s rhetoric
appealed to racism and claiming that under his leadership, the U.S. was abandoning
allied Kurdish fighters in Syria.
“The places where I would be most critical of the
president would be in matters that were divisive, that appeared to be appealing
to racism or misogyny, and those are the kinds of things I think that have been
most, most harmful long term to the foundation of America’s virtuous
character,” Romney, who said he wrote in his wife, Ann, when he voted in
2016, told “Axios on HBO.”
Although Romney noted he still votes with Trump 80
percent of the time, he and the president have clashed in recent years, with
Trump ridiculing Romney over his 2012 defeat against incumbent President
Obama. Trump recently branded
Romney a “pompous ‘a–‘ who “choked” in his own run for the White
House.
Edmund DeMarche is a news editor for FoxNews.com. Follow
him on Twitter @EDeMarche.
