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After receiving
President Barack Obama's endorsement on Thursday to succeed him
in the White House, Clinton, who this week clinched the
Democratic nomination for the Nov. 8 election, tweeted she was
honored to have his support and "fired up and ready to go."
Trump, who has made extensive use of Twitter during his
insurgent Republican presidential campaign, took the opportunity
to tweet back: "Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary. He wants
four more years of Obama—but nobody else does!"
Clinton's account quickly responded: "Delete your account," in a
tweet to her 6.7 million Twitter followers.
Within minutes, the phrase, a popular form of online dismissal,
became Clinton's most popular tweet ever, with more than 194,000
retweets and 213,000 likes.
Prominent Republicans rushed to their presumptive nominee's aid,
taking thinly veiled shots at Clinton's use of a private email
server while secretary of state.
".@HillaryClinton If anyone knows how to use a delete key, it's
you," tweeted Republican National Committee Chairman Reince
Priebus.
Clinton has repeatedly said she chose "not to keep" some 30,000
emails her lawyers deemed personal, which has been widely
interpreted as meaning she deleted the personal emails.
Trump later rejoined the battle, tweeting: "How long did it take
your staff of 823 people to think that up--and where are your
33,000 emails that you deleted?"
(Reporting by Alana Wise in Washington; Additional reporting by
Jonathan Allen in New York; Editing by Peter Cooney)
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