David Frum Accuses Serena Williams Of Steroids Use, Former Bush Speechwriter Quickly Deletes Tweets
David Frum, a political commentator and a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, took to Twitter to accuse Serena Williams of steroids use after the Tennis player won her eighth Wimbledon women’s World Championship.
Frum almost instantly deleted the posts, before then admitting that they were meant for a private conversation. Raw Story, via the Grio, managed to screen-capture Grum’s tweets before he deleted them off his @davidfrum account, though.
Frum wrote, “Not to allege against Serena — again I don’t know — but she’s not above the question.” He then followed this up with, “Fans don’t want to know.” Frum then finally tweeted, “Maybe. But consider how long sports press looked away from McGuire Armstrong et al.”
A few days before these messages were posted, Frum also took uploaded the following provocative post.
Steroids? Oh no, no, no. “Body image issues.” http://t.co/40W01g14n7
— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 11, 2015
Serena Williams’ “rivals could try to emulate her physique, but most of them choose not to.” http://t.co/40W01g14n7
— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 11, 2015
David Frum, who is now a senior editor for the Atlantic and the Chairman for the Policy Exchange, was quick to take down the messages. He then insisted that they were meant for a private conversation with a friend.
Well that’s unfortunate : I seem to have posted publicly a private Twitter conversation with a friend. I’m taking the messages down … — David Frum (@davidfrum) July 12, 2015
not because I don’t stand behind them, but because they weren’t intended for the public domain.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 12, 2015
Serena Williams claimed her eighth Wimbledon women’s title on Saturday after defeating 20th seed Garbine Murguruza 6-4, 6-4. She is widely regarded as the greatest female tennis player of all time, and she is currently the reigning Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, U.S. Open, WTA Tour Championships, and Olympic women’s singles champion.
Williams currently has a record of 36 Grand Slam titles, having amalgamated 21 singles, 13 women’s doubles, and two mixed doubles titles.
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