Trump Surrogate Claims Account Was Hacked After Tweet Calls Clinton a ‘C–t’

Texas Republican Sid Miller Claims Account Hacked, Then Blames Derogatory Post On Staffer

A tweet from the account of one of Donald Trump’s top surrogates in Texas referred to Hillary Clinton as a “c-nt” on Tuesday. 

The tweet from the account of Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller (above), who has a penchant for incendiary posts on social media, was deleted about 15 minutes later. 

A subsequent tweet from Miller’s account (above) claimed he’d been hacked, but that tweet was also deleted. 

“I can tell you with all assurance, 100 percent, that Commissioner Miller is not involved in sending any tweet that would have used the filthy language that was included in that,” Miller spokesman Todd Smith told The Austin Statesman. “Someone obviously went on our account and got into it.”

However, Miller later told a Dallas TV station that someone from his campaign stole the text of the tweet from another account without reading it closely enough:  

Another spokesman for Miller, Mark Loefler, told The Dallas Morning News: “The campaign was retweeting information on Twitter today and inadvertently retweeted a tweet that they were not aware contained a derogatory term. The tweet was taken down as soon as possible. Commissioner Miller finds the term vulgar and offensive and apologizes to anyone who may have seen it.”

Miller, who co-chairs Trump’s agriculture advisory committee, emerged as the GOP nominee’s top surrogate in Texas over the weekend, when he appeared on Fox News in a cowboy hat and discredited polls saying the presidential race is a tossup in the Lone Star State:

Trump later praised Miller at a rally in Las Vegas, calling him “a great guy” and boasting that his campaign had created “yet another star.”  

“He said, ‘Trump is going to win by massive numbers, bigger than anyone’s ever seen,'” Trump said. “And he said, ‘So I don’t know what you people are talking about on television, where they’re saying the vote in Texas is going to be very close.’ He said, ‘I don’t know what you people are talking about. You must be talking about a different Texas than the one I’m from.'”

Shortly thereafter, Miller began flooding his social media accounts with pro-Trump messages — culminating in the tweet referring to Clinton as a “c-nt.”

Previously on Facebook, Miller has called for the atomic bombing of “the Muslim world,” compared Syrian refugees to venomous rattlesnakes and threatened violence against people who say “happy holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.” 

Miller, who took office in 2015, has also come under investigation by the Texas Rangers for using public funds to pay for trips to Mississippi and Oklahoma in early 2015. After traveling to Mississippi to compete in a rodeo, he spent more than $1,120 on a trip to Oklahoma to obtain the “Jesus shot,” which is said to remove all pain for life.