The 2019 tweet blew up in House Republicans’ faces during a hearing earlier this week while they were desperately attempting to expose efforts to shut down conservative messages on Twitter.
But it turned out it was Trump officials who tried to censor Teigen’s tweet, “because it was a derogatory statement directed towards the [then] president,” former Twitter employee Anika Collier Navaroli testified before House members on Wednesday.
The tweet stayed up, Navaroli suggested, because Twitter’s policy at the time allowed “up to 3 insults” in any tweet.
In response, Teigen wrote that her tweet only contained two insults, because “pussy-ass goes together.”
