Trump Goon Deletes Tweets as Missing Cash Scandal Explodes

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters Donald Trump wants to crush The Swamp.

The leaks, the sneaks, and the secrets are all there.

Our writers, David Gardner, Farrah Tomazin, Sarah Ewall-Wice , Julia Ornedo , and Laura Esposito are sifting through the ooze so you don’t have to.

Don’t miss out .

In this week’s nooze from the ooze : Vivek Ramswamy , Stephen King , Connie Luck , James Talarico , Ric Grenell , Magic Johnson , Robert F.

Kennedy Jr. , Katie Zacharia , Alina “call me Alina Mildon” Habba , Susie Wiles , Nikki Glaser , Turhan Mildon , and Melania Trump .

Grenell’s Old Posts Vanish as Cash Scandal Deepens Ric Grenell loves putting up social media posts—almost as much as he loves deleting them.

The Trump loyalist has long been one of the administration’s fiercest defenders on X.

But now, he’s locked in battle with another top Trump acolyte over accusations that Grenell failed to hand over a multi-million-dollar donation to the Kennedy Center during his disastrous tenure as its acting president and executive director.

That hasn’t stopped him regularly pouring scorn on critics and amplifying MAGA conspiracies , like the debunked theory that Democratic star James Talarico ’s days-long disappearance wasn’t just caused by the flu.

On Oct.

11, for example, Grenell gave Truth Social superposter Donald Trump a run for his money by posting a dozen times on X between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. to praise the president , attack author Stephen King , and declare that “journalism is dead.” (The Swamp is alive and well, Ric.) But Grenell has been deleting a lot of posts, too—amid a mounting scandal.

The Swamp found plenty of examples which have disappeared from Grenell’s feed.

Though several of these deleted X posts attacked a variety of figures, including comedian Nikki Glaser to basketball legend Magic Johnson , other posts praised Trump for his deportation blitz and—strange one to get rid of—paid tribute to the late Republican Ukraine booster Lindsey Graham .