It took Donald Trump three tries to spell 'hereby' correctly on Twitter

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Spelling is hard, as President Trump learned very publicly Friday. The president tried to land a zinger about House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) meeting with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, but thanks to the word "hereby" it took him three tweets to get it right.

First, Trump spelled the two-syllable word "hear by":

The second time, he got a little closer:

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And finally, on the third try, Trump landed the punch line about a "second investigation":

Trump deleted both typo-riddled tweets before his successful third try. In between his spelling corrections, Trump took a moment to tweet about the importance of fixing the American education system. Becca Stanek

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