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As the tweet’s 10,000 responses indicate, the attorney general is not the president’s attorney—that duty falls to the general counsel—and so attorney-client privilege does not apply between the two. Also, “accurately answering questions at a Senate hearing” probably does not make someone a “stooge of Congress,” but this is where Trump loyalists are these days, somehow politicizing the notion of truthfulness. Anyway, onto those 10,000 responses:

Someone doesn’t understand the difference between an Attorney General and a General Counsel. https://t.co/RYvflOi2uh

— Herbal (@HerbCarmen) June 13, 2017

Folks, Oscar-nominee Don Cheadle had to hop into things.

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Huckabee’s original tweet was so wrong it inspired a sort of existential confusion:

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Huckabee did not get down and start mixing it up in the mentions, nor did he delete the offending tweet. Soon enough, he was back to doing what he does best—tossing off corny zingers.

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Huckabee’s personal brand of “your shitty racist online uncle” remains perfectly intact.

[via Daily Dot]