The Pentagon is looking into how a Twitter post calling for President Trump to resign was retweeted from the official Defense Department account on Thursday.
The official account, @deptofdefense, retweeted a post to its more than 5 million followers that was reacting to recent revelations about U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and past sexual misconduct allegations against Trump.
“The solution is simple … Roy Moore: Step down from the race. Al Franken: Resign from congress. Donald Trump: Resign from the presidency. GOP: Stop making sexual assault a partisan issue. It’s a crime as is your hypocrisy.”
Pentagon spokesman Tom Crosson called it an “errant tweet,” noted it was immediately deleted upon discovery and said the matter is being looked into.
“This is not something we would endorse.”
An authorized operator of the @DeptofDefense’s official Twitter site erroneously retweeted content that would not be endorsed by the Department of Defense. The operator caught this error and immediately deleted it.
— Dana W. White – DoD (@ChiefPentSpox) November 16, 2017
