In your bizarre political news of the day, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan tweeted (and quickly deleted) about yesterday's poll showing that deceased gorilla Harambe nabbing about five percent of the electorate. The tweet was directed at Barstool Sports writer Dan Katz.
Katie Leach, an intern at Independent Journal, managed to screenshot the tweet before it was deleted from Ryan's account.
. @PRyan deleted this a few minutes afterwords. It's ok to endorse Harambe, Mr. Speaker. pic.twitter.com/zh92C8yPTU
— Katie Leach (@KatieMLeach) August 2, 2016
Meanwhile over at Barstool, Katz wondered if Ryan (or at least one of his staffers) was a fan of the site or if he had been invited to join the illuminati via the tweet.
Since Harambe was killed in May, his death has become an internet phenomena of sorts.