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Trump tweeted a video of his supporters attacking protesters: His press secretary said he didn’t watch it. 

Linguistic Analysis: Without Twitter, Donald Trump Would Not Be in the White House Today
 
Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker, The New York Times;
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[A Trump] tweet was part of an especially intense barrage of Twitter messages unleashed by the president over the weekend, in which he embraced fringe conspiracy theories claiming that the coronavirus death toll has been exaggerated and that street protests are actually an organized coup d’état against him. 

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In a concentrated predawn burst on Sunday, the president posted or reposted 89 messages between 5:49 a.m. and 8:04 a.m. on top of 18 the night before.

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