Meghan McCain's husband slams Twitter for waiting hours to remove tweet threatening wife
Meghan McCain‘s husband, Ben Domenech, slammed Twitter for letting a tweet stay up for hours that included an image doctored to show a gun pointed at Meghan McCain as she approached her father’s casket. The account has since been suspended, Domenech said on Friday, but not until after he had to “raise a ruckus.”
On Thursday, Domenech, who is a conservative writer and contributor to CBS News, tweeted the screengrab of the doctored image of a gun pointed at Meghan McCain as she approached her father John McCain’s casket. The original poster had written “America, this ones for you,” according to the Arizona Republic.
“Hey @jack, this has been up for half a day. It has been reported 100+ times. No response. Tell me why this is cool by you,” Domenech wrote in the now-deleted tweet. Domenech later deleted that tweet when the account was suspended “so no one will have to see it.”
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On Friday, Domenech slammed Twitter for letting it stay up for hours, writing that it was only after his “hours later tweet to finally get a reaction. Did not want to elevate it but that is what Twitter requires apparently.”
“Twitter finally suspended this account this morning,” Domenech posted Friday. “No one should have to raise a ruckus or highlight this sort of thing publicly to get their attention.”
Meghan McCain was photographed overcome with emotion at her father’s casket at a service on Wednesday. She said at a service at the National Cathedral on Saturday that “the best of John McCain, the greatest of his titles, and the most important of his roles was as a father. John McCain was defined by love.”
John McCain died on Aug. 25 at the age of 81.
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