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    Looking for the Linguistic Smoking-Gun in a Trump Tweet

    Could the word <em>pled</em> really reveal who wrote Trump’s reaction to the Flynn news?
    by Ben Zimmer Dec 03, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

    President Donald Trump’s behavior on Twitter routinely drives entire news cycles. This weekend, he showed that a single word within a single presidential tweet can be explosive.

    Trump raised alarm bells in his published response to the news that his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.

    The tweet published to Trump’s account clearly implied that he already knew that Flynn had deceived the Feds when he fired him back in February: “I had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI. He has pled guilty to those lies.

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