“Hi Brad. I am sending you a post on socials regarding the trump walz conversation, this has been approved by staff. Will be using the picture attached and caption for all three platforms.”
“Thank you, President Trump and Gov Walz. I am pleased to see these recent developments. The only way to a resolution is through productive conversations. Public safety shouldn’t be partisan, and cooperation is how we deliver real results for our communities. Real leadership means putting law and order above politics,” says the first version of Republican Minnesota Congressman Brad Finstad’s Monday Facebook post applauding and sharing a screenshot convicted felon President Trump’s Truth Social post from hours earlier in which someone, probably not Trump himself, had wrote “Governor Tim Walz called me with the request to work together with respect to Minnesota. It was a very good call, and we, actually, seemed to be on a similar wavelength,” and blah blah blah.
Within three minutes one of Finstad’s staffers removed the “Hi Brad” part. But since Facebook allows you to see the edit history (click on the three dots in the upper right-hand corner) maybe they should’ve just deleted it and started a fresh one without the goddamned instructions from the White House or whoever told “Finstad” to paste in the “approved” talking point on the Walz Trump call.