Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, a Donald Trump supporter, used the c-word to describe Hillary Clinton on Tuesday afternoon.
Miller posted a tweet a 1:26pm on Tuesday referring to a Pennsylvania poll which showed Trump with a one percentage point lead over Clinton. In place of Clinton’s name within the tweet was the c-word, a derogatory term for female genitalia.
Miller’s campaign says his account was hacked and deleted the tweet. The derogatory tweet was also posted by an alt-right Twitter account this afternoon.
A few minutes later, Miller’s Twitter account deleted another tweet claiming his account was hacked and sent out a statement.
“The campaign was retweeting information on Twitter today and inadvertently retweeted a tweet they were not aware contained a derogatory term,” Miller’s campaign said. “The tweet was taken down as soon as possible. Commissioner Miller finds the term vulgar and offensive and apologies to anyone who may have seen it.”
Yet Miller’s tweet was not a simple retweet of an earlier image. Miller added “Go Trump Go!” to the original tweet before posting on his account.