Donald Trump’s “smocking gun” tweet gives away something about Rudy Giuliani
This morning Donald Trump went on a bender about how there was no smoking gun proving his guilt. The trouble: he misspelled it as “smocking gun.” Twice. We’ve all had fun with it today, and deservedly so. But after doing some research, I can all but prove that Trump didn’t type that tweet. In fact, when combined with another recent Trump gaffe on Twitter, I can demonstrate precisely – with a fair degree of certainty – who did type it.
I know what some of you are already thinking. You want Donald Trump to have typed this morning’s “smocking” tweet, because it’s more fun that way. But hear me out, because facts and evidence matter – and once you see who actually typed up this tweet, you’re going to see that it’s important.
First, Donald Trump knows how to spell “smoking gun.” In fact he used it in a tweet just a few months ago. Further, while Trump routinely makes spelling errors, they’re nearly always a result of failed attempts at phonetically spelling things. There is no one, no matter how illiterate, who would try to phonetically spell “smoking” and come up with “smocking” instead. So this had to have been typed by someone who has very different misspelling patterns than those of Trump. That brings us to the space bar.
For weeks, someone in Donald Trump’s inner circle has been suffering from a malfunctioning space bar, resulting in tweets with random double spaces between words, and missing spaces between sentences. Then over the weekend, one of Trump’s own tweets mysteriously suffered from the same space bar malfunction. It was fairly clear that the Trump tweet in question was typed by the other person, the one with the broken space bar. That person is Rudy Giuliani.
The evidence here is overwhelming. Donald Trump posted a tweet that suffered from the same malfunctioning space bar that Rudy Giuliani has been suffering from. Then Trump misspelled a word that we’ve already seen he knows how to spell, and he misspelled it in a manner that doesn’t fit with his particular literacy issues.
If Donald Trump didn’t write his most recent tweets, then Rudy Giuliani did. And if Trump is now allowing his bumbling, cognitively compromised defense attorney to tweet for him, it suggests that Trump is either too frozen with fear to do anything, or he’s given up fighting entirely. Again, some of you want Trump to have made the funny “smocking” gaffe. But the evidence points to something more important: Trump having given up.
