Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee ridiculed Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney for using a fake Twitter account and likened his behavior to that of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner.
A reporter for Slate uncovered Romney’s secondary account, which is under the handle @qaws9876 and name Pierre Delecto, after he acknowledged operating a separate account in a profile published by the Atlantic. The senator later confirmed that he used the account.
Huckabee appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning and tore into the senator.
“First of all, Mitt Romney bounces back and forth more than a tennis ball at a Venus Williams match,” Huckabee declared. “But the latest thing is this incredible revelation that he is, in fact, Pierre Delecto. He’s got a secret Twitter account. I find this just really stunning. The man is 72 years old. Having fake Twitter accounts on social media, that’s the work of kids, cowards, couch potatoes, and perverts like Carlos Danger.” Carlos Danger was former Democratic New York Rep. Anthony Weiner’s fake name.
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Huckabee continued, “He is still bitter because Donald Trump got elected and he didn’t. He needs to get over it. He needs to realize that the choice in this country is the choice between socialism and the very capitalism that he so celebrated, and it made him so incredibly uber-wealthy. And he needs to start embracing that’s the binary choice we face in this nation between Donald Trump and whoever is on that stage for the Democrats.”
Romney’s fake Twitter account has 702 followers, and he has only tweeted 10 times. In all of those occasions, Romney was replying to other tweets, and he defended himself in a majority of them. The account follows big names including John McCain, Larry Kudlow, and Rupert Murdoch, while also following accounts such as @NY4Mitt and @AltPresRomney.
