One of the Democrats running for a U.S. House seat in Pennsylvania deleted a series of tweets in which he praised President Trump and said liberals are intolerant of anyone who disagrees with them.
Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli, a centrist Democrat, in early 2017 called on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign because “he is incapable of protecting his citizens.”
“Rahm Emanuel should immediately resign as Mayor. He is incapable of protecting his citizens. Misguided liberalism at work,” he wrote on Jan. 3, 2017. The tweet was directed at Trump’s Twitter account.
In a subsequent tweet, he wrote, “Chicago is a mess. Rahm must resign. Obama should send in feds like he does when police use force.”
Around the same time he sent the Emanuel tweets, Morganelli also slammed liberals over intolerance.
“The progressives who believe they are so open to ideas are the least tolerant of anyone who disagrees with them,” he wrote.
CNN’s KFile first reported that the tweets from 2017 had been deleted. Morganelli stood by the tweets when asked about them by CNN.
“I do believe some progressives who believe that they want everyone to be tolerant of some things are very intolerant of other people’s opinions, so I do believe that,” he said. “I’ve seen it in action, personally.”
In tweets sent weeks after the 2016 presidential election, Morganelli praised Trump, even suggesting that he was looking for a job in the Trump administration.
“These were after the election, and many of us in the country hoped that Trump would be better than he is, he’s not doing a good job obviously, and I was hoping — as many Americans did — I wished the president well. Those tweets were in, like, December and November and after he took — I don’t think you’ll find any tweets because listening to the inauguration speech, which I thought was a disaster, I just felt that his administration got off to a terrible start and has continued beyond that,” Morganelli told CNN of the Trump tweets.
