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One of President Donald *****’s most prolific supporters and meme creators, known online as Carpe Donktum, was suspended from Twitter Monday after a video of his depicting the president killing off journalists and critics surfaced over the weekend.
The New York Times reported that the Donktum-produced video was played at a pro-***** event in Florida over the weekend, causing significant uproar among the press, many of whom saw it as encouraging violence against journalists.
Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment as to why the account was suddenly removed. However, Donktum spent Monday morning re-upping much of his older content on his Twitter feed in response to the controversy. It’s unclear if the video from over…