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After the August 3, 2019, mass shooting at a mall in El Paso, Texas, that left twenty people dead and dozens more injured, news accounts reported that a suspect arrested for crime had posted a four-page manifesto online shortly beforehand in which he expressed an intense hatred for immigrants and Mexicans: By the following day, a rumor was afloat in social media that President Trump's team had begun deleting tweets in which Trump, like the shooting suspect, had referred to immigrants as invaders: However, at the time that rumor was posted, the three tweets it referenced as examples (one of which had nothing to do with immigrants) were still openly accessible in Trump's Twitter feed (and remained so at the time of this writing): The same account that promulgated the rumor later acknowledged that the supposedly deleted tweets were in fact still posted, but then contended President Trump had deleted two other tweets: However, those two other deleted tweets were ones in which President Trump had condemned the El Paso shooter (not immigrants), and which he had reposted later the same day:
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