Twitter’s Ex-FBI Lawyer Raised Misinformation Query on Trump’s ‘Don’t Be Afraid of COVID’ Post: Twitter Files

Twitter’s Ex-FBI Lawyer Raised Misinformation Query on Trump’s ‘Don’t Be Afraid of COVID’ Post: Twitter Files
President Donald Trump, who is being treated for the CCP virus at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, speaks from his hospital room, on Oct. 3, 2020. The White House/Handout via Reuters
Samantha Flom
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Former top-FBI lawyer James Baker raised a query on an October 2020 tweet from then-President Donald Trump, seeking to know why it wasn’t misinformation, according to the latest installment of the Elon Musk-endorsed “Twitter Files.”

Baker, who at the time was serving as Twitter’s deputy general counsel, targeted a tweet Trump wrote prior to his release from Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, after receiving treatment for COVID-19.

Samantha Flom
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Samantha Flom is a reporter for The Epoch Times covering U.S. politics and news. A graduate of Syracuse University, she has a background in journalism and nonprofit communications. Contact her at [email protected].
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