Trump Blames Intern for Bad Iowa Tweet

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Updated Apr. 13, 2017 6:35PM EDT / Published Oct. 22, 2015 5:45PM EDT

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Donald Trump blamed a “young intern” for tweeting a negative comment about Iowa voters on Thursday. Earlier in the day, Trump’s account favorably re-tweeted a message from user “@mygreenhippo,” which suggested that Ben Carson’s Iowa primary lead is due to “too much Monsanto in the corn creat[ing] issues in the brain?” Iowa is the nation’s leading corn producer and genetically modified crops pioneer Monsanto has a substantial presence in the state. After political watchers wondered whether Trump was wittingly taking a stab at a key primary state’s mental capacity, the candidate took to Twitter with a terse statement: “The young intern who accidentally did a Retweet apologizes.”

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Trump Blames Intern for Bad Iowa Tweet

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