{"id":1310598,"date":"2022-02-18T15:23:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1310598"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:24:05","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:24:05","slug":"state-department-twitter-account-boosts-anti-trump-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-twitter-account-boosts-anti-trump-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Twitter Account Boosts Anti-Trump Politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-department-twitter-account-boosts-anti-trump-politician%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1310598&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">\u2018Unauthorized use of an official State Department Twitter account\u2019 raises eyebrows<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Joe_Walsh_5452909326-736x491-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Joe_Walsh_5452909326-scaled-e1645211288143.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Joe_Walsh_5452909326-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Joe_Walsh_5452909326-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Joe_Walsh_5452909326-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Joe_Walsh_5452909326-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Joe_Walsh_5452909326-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Joe_Walsh_5452909326-1400x933.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tFormer congressman Joe Walsh (Wikimedia Commons)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 February 18, 2022 3:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>An official State Department Twitter account was inappropriately used to promote an anti-Trump politician, a State Department official told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department\u2019s Bureau of Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance (AVC), retweeted this week a message by Joe Walsh, a one-time Republican firebrand who is now known for his fierce opposition to former president Donald Trump. Walsh tweeted about the recall of three San Francisco school board members over their prioritization of progressive measures in the name of racial justice and their support for draconian coronavirus restrictions on the city\u2019s public schools.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Democrats, please pay attention to what happened in San Francisco yesterday,&#8221; Walsh <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/WalshFreedom\/status\/1493988789441773568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in a tweet that was boosted by the State Department\u2019s AVC bureau. Walsh and others <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-health-san-francisco-school-boards-6b61b1149688cdf4fbf8ac577d07f644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared to be indicating<\/a> that Democrats who support pandemic school closures could be at risk ahead of midterm elections later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The AVC bureau\u2019s retweet of this message raised eyebrows among congressional observers who questioned why a federal agency focused on arms control would wade into such a fraught political debate.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the matter, a State Department spokesman told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that the AVC account was used by an unauthorized individual and that the retweet was later deleted once officials realized what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was an unauthorized use of an official State Department Twitter account.&nbsp;When alerted, the managers of the account deleted the unauthorized retweet and changed the password,&#8221; the official said.<\/p>\n<p>One congressional source who spoke to the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> after seeing the retweet expressed shock over the matter. &#8220;There\u2019s a rumor circulating around Foggy Bottom that Secretary Blinken is considering changing the name of the \u2018AVC\u2019 Bureau to \u2018DNC,\u2019&#8221; the source said, referring to the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration \u2018Unauthorized use of an official State Department Twitter account\u2019 raises eyebrows  Former congressman Joe Walsh (Wikimedia Commons)  Adam Kredo \u2022 February 18, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}