New York Times Reporter Deletes Tweets Suggesting Trump Supporters Are ‘Enemies of the State’

New York Times Reporter Deletes Tweets Suggesting Trump Supporters Are ‘Enemies of the State’
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A New York Times reporter, Katie Benner, deleted a series of tweets that suggested supporters of former President Donald Trump should be called “enemies of the state,” saying that they were “unclearly worded.”

The series of now-deleted posts began by saying that “today’s #January6thSelectCommittee underscores the America’s current, essential [national security] dilemma: Work to combat legitimate national security threats now entails calling a politician’s supporters enemies of the state.”

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