Georgian presidential administration points at cyber-attack after retweet of Trump’s ‘Sleepy Joe’ tweet
US President Trump’s tweet on his opponent Joe Biden appeared on Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili’s Twitter page yesterday. Photo: President’s press office.
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The administration of the President of Georgia has announced that the manager of President Salome Zurabishvili’s Twitter account made a mistake in re-tweeting US President Donald Trump’s tweet calling democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden “sleepy Joe.”
Pittsburgh jobless rate hits lowest point since the early 1970s (maybe even better than that) and Sleepy Joe just had his first rally there. Fact is, every economic aspect of our Country is the best it has ever been! https://t.co/kWriC0DIuW
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 29, 2019
The administration also noted that a cyber attack may have taken place.
The mistake by the social media manager was a preliminary assessment. The issue is being studied and a cyber attack [may have taken place]”, President Zurabishvili’s Press Speaker Khatia Moistsrapishvili stated at a special briefing earlier today.
She said that an account of one of the employees of the president’s administration was attacked several days ago and the case is also being studied.
The tweet has now been deleted from the President Zurabishvili’s Twitter page.
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