Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, a man who has been referred to as Donald Trump's "go-to guy" in Texas, is apologizing for a "deplorable" tweet his Twitter account sent out, which referred to Hillary Clinton as a "cunt."
"PENNSYLVANIA: NEW AUTO ALLIANCE POLL," the tweet read. "TRUMP 44 Cunt 43 Go Trump Go!"
The tweet was deleted less than 15 minutes after being initially posted, but a screenshot was grabbed by a Texas Tribune reporter.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller appears to call @HillaryClinton the C-word: pic.twitter.com/AwM7RLaHkC
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) November 1, 2016
As soon as the tweet was published, Miller came under intense fire, with Gov. Greg Abbott saying, "No true Texas gentleman would ever talk that way." Miller followed up by claiming he was hacked, tweeting that "the disgusting re-tweet has been removed and we have changed all account passwords."
It appears Sid Miller has deleted his tweet saying his Twitter account has been hacked. Here's the screenshot: pic.twitter.com/EpCTcscCog — Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) November 1, 2016
Miller's slur wasn't a re-tweet, though; it was a tweet he seemingly copied and pasted from a twitter user with whom he ad interacted minutes before the tweet with the slur on Clinton.
Miller soon revised his story, however, instead arguing that the tweet had been sent out by staffers who weren't paying close attention to their work.
"I said, 'Why don't y'all just do some retweets?'" Miller explained to The Texas Tribune. "They didn't notice it had a derogatory term in it and they tweeted it out."
Late Tuesday, he told a WFAA-TV reporter that he "would never use" the word cunt. "It's deplorable. It's despicable."
This isn't the first time that Miller has faced controversy. On Monday he got into a heated exchange with an alt-right Twitter user who called pundit Milo Yiannopoulos as a "subversive Jew."
@Nutzo56 @NeoRxInvestor @TheRickyVaughn @GenSash @DiamondandSilk I don't tolerate Jew haters. I have many on my team.
— Sid Miller (@MillerForTexas) October 31, 2016
Miller was offended, claiming that he has many Jews on his staff, and adding that "Jew haters I know are liberal."
Miller is also under investigation by the Texas Rangers over out-of-state, taxpayer funded trips he took in February 2015.
He also apparently has Ted Nugent as his campaign manager.
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