President Trump's latest off-hours tweets, including one suggesting violence against CNN and another retweeting an alt-right conspiracy theorist, reignited criticism of him as he tries to get past his awkward and belated condemnation of the racially motivated violence in Charlottesville, Va. The deletions were a rare move for Trump aides given the president's refusal to admit mistakes in judgment or action. The third eyebrow-raising tweet, from the conspiracy theorist, remains on his Twitter feed. The official would not say who noticed the tweets and advised the president that they should be removed. The first post came late Monday, when Trump retweeted an alt-right media figure who pushed the PizzaGate and Seth Rich conspiracy theories.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 15, 2017 14:49 UTC