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Pierre Delectostrikes again!
This Halloween, one ofMitt Romney’s grandsons paid tribute to the name the Utah Sen. gave to his secret Twitter account, which was unearthed earlier this month.
Seemingly poking fun at the fact that his grandfather’s “lurker” identity had been revealed, his grandson Thomas dressed up in a tuxedo with a name tag on it, on which the former presidential candidate’s name had clearly been crossed out and replaced with the name Pierre Delecto.
“Thomas as #PierroDelecto and Joe as Nacho. World beware,” thesenator’s son Taggcaptioned the social media snaps — which quickly got the attention of the man responsible for Delecto.
“Great costumes!” Romney, 72, wrote in response to the creative costume, before issuing a joking warming to his grandson.
“Thomas, #OutOfTheWill!” he quipped.
Commenting on the unique idea, Eric Columbus, former Justice Department appointee underPresident Obama, joked that it was avery 2019 costume.
“Nothing more 2019 than dressing up as Grandpa’s twitter name for Halloween,” he tweeted.
The truth about Romney’s covert username came in part thanks to a profilepublished inThe Atlanticearlier this month, in which the reporter briefly noted that the regular critic ofPresident Donald Trumpkept a “secret” Twitter account to “keep tabs on the political conversation.”
Although Romney declined to share the name of the account, he did share how many people he was following, specifically mentioning comedianConan O’Brien— and it wasn’t long beforeSlate’s Ashley Feinberg, who previouslywent deep figuring out former FBI Director James Comey’s secret Twitter account, uncovered the truth.
Speaking withThe Atlanticin a followup interview, Romney confirmed it was: “C’est moi.”
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At the time that Feinberg found the account, which has since been made private, Romney had tweeted only 10 times, and almost all of the messages were written in defense of himself.
source: people.com
