Some said they hadn't read his tweet about an injured Buffalo protester; others said they had a policy of not discussing the president's Twitter posts.
WASHINGTON — Republican senators don't want to talk about President Donald Trump's tweet. Some say they haven't read it. Others say they don't want to know about it. Yet others say they have a policy of not discussing what the president says on Twitter.
When asked about the president's tweet, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., told reporters Tuesday on Capitol Hill:"I haven’t read the damn thing. I don’t want to hear it.""I didn't see it," Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said of the president's tweet after a reporter read it aloud to him."I'm sure that my office will be able to get me a copy of it, but I didn't see it, and I didn't — I saw the — that he had fallen.
It was the latest instance of prominent Republicans dodging questions about a Trump tweet or claiming they were unaware of it. The White House's position is that Trump's tweets are official statements from the president, who boasts nearly 82 million followers on the platform. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said he isn't Trump's spokesman and referred questions to the president.
Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee who is vying to win over seniors this fall, responded to his opponent on Twitter:
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