Hillary Clinton may not have won the presidency, but she appears to have mastered the delicate art of the subtweet.
Late on Monday night, Michael Flynn resigned as US national security advisor after leaks suggested he had attempted to cover up discussions about sanctions with the Russian ambassador.
Among those reacting to the news was Phillipe Reines, who worked with Clinton when she was secretary of state.
Dear Mike Flynn & Mike Flynn Jr.,
— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) February 14, 2017
What goes around COMETS around.
And given your pizza obsession...https://t.co/rmyO7wyJKX
xo
Philippe
Clinton herself then picked up on his tweet:
Philippe's got his own way of saying things, but he has a point about the real consequences of fake news... https://t.co/a02sXiaHfp
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 14, 2017
Reines refers to the Pizzagate conspiracy, which falsely accused Washington pizza shop Comet Ping Pong of being the centre of a child sex ring involving leading Democrats.
When he was nominated as Trump’s national security advisor, Flynn was found by CNN to have shared fake news and interacted with members of the so-called alt-right.
That near-shooting in Washington DC was inspired by a conspiracy theory advanced by .... Mike Flynn https://t.co/cCuxaXYDrx pic.twitter.com/3DudzOFiNX
— Will Jordan (@williamjordann) December 4, 2016
His son, Michael Flynn Junior, lost his job on Trump’s transition team after helping to spread the #Pizzagate conspiracy. In a now-deleted tweet, he wrote: “Until #Pizzagate proven to be false, it’ll remain a story. The left seems to forget #PodestaEmails and the many ‘coincidences’ tied to it.”
While Clinton has not directly called out Trump on Twitter, at least by name, she – or whoever runs her account – has shown a knack for tweeting a pointed message at the right moment. Last week, after Trump tweeted angrily about a judicial decision to uphold a temporary restraining order on his controversial travel ban, she sent a simple message:
3-0
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 10, 2017
