After Donald Trump was rushed off stage by Secret Service at a rally Saturday, rumors circulated that the commotion had been caused by a failed assassination attempt. Those rumors were swiftly proven false — but not before Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., came under fire for retweeting the misinformation.
"I took heat for tweeting about it when I'm sitting there not knowing what's going on — I'm following social media — and major and credible news organizations saying 'there was a gun. There was a gun.' I tweeted at the time," Trump Jr. explained on the Joyce Kaufman Show on Monday. "That was real time. They're saying I'm supposed to go back and erase things off my Twitter feed. I don't do that."
Donald Trump Jr. does happen to "do that," though. In at least one instance, Trump Jr. deleted a 2011 joke about sexually harassing women in October of this year:
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The "assassination attempt" was ultimately determined to be an anti-Trump Republican man, who was trying to pull out a sign to wave at the rally.
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