Former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke is in the middle of a new controversy this week.
A few months ago, Clarke resigned from his sheriff post amidst questions over his connection to Russia. Just a month after announcing that he was joining Trump's administration as Homeland Security's Assistant Secretary, the department announced Clarke was no longer in consideration for the role. Clarke later joined the PAC America First Action, whose mission is to help elect candidates who support the Trump administration.
Now, according to CNN, Twitter has muffled the Trump advocate for tweets that appeared to advocate for violence against the media. Clarke now only has reading privileges on the site, and has been temporarily blocked from tweeting.
The tweet that seems to be the one that got the former sheriff banned read:
"When LYING LIB MEDIA makes up MAKE NEWS to smear me, the ANTIDOTE is to go right at them. Punch them in the nose & MAKE THEM TASTE THEIR OWN BLOOD. Nothing gets a bully like LYING LIB MEDIA"S attention better than to give them a taste of their own blood #neverbackdown."
According to Twitter's rules, users "may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people."
Clarke sent two other tweets before being blocked that attacked the media, including this one:
I will NOT be Intimidated into silence by LYING LIB MEDIA. I will NOT be intimidated by LIBERAL hyper partisan government HACKS who weaponize government authorirty to go after people whose views they don't like. I will STAND AND FIGHT for TRUTH & what I believe is RIGHT. JOIN ME. pic.twitter.com/8yLEQvRSpX— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) January 2, 2018
Twitter has yet to release any official statement about Clarke's account.
Clarke said of the news, "I know I'm winning. Some snowflake lib made a complaint to Twitter because of my earlier tweet about black kids being exploited by lefty failed policies at Ballou High School. I said in my tweet, this CRAP is criminal. Twitter said no violation of rules. Diaper change time."
