Meet Pierre Delecto

Move over Carlos Danger!

Just when it looked as though failed GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney couldn’t possibly be more pathetic, he was outed for having a secret Twitter account.

Romney has been getting plenty of media love since he moved to Utah where he easily won retiring Orrin Hatch’s Senate seat and went to Washington where he has become a top antagonist of President Trump but now risks becoming a complete mockery.

Not only did Mitt have a secret Twitter account but his handle of Pierre Delecto already ranks up there in the annals of political infamy right alongside Carlos Danger.

The former governor of ultra-liberal Massachusetts has used the account which bears the anonymous user id of @qaws9876 to deflect criticism, give himself props and launch a series of gutless attacks against Trump.

The Mittster himself let the cat out of the bag during an interview with the hoity-toity Atlantic magazine.

“That’s kind of what he does,” Romney said with a shrug, and then got up to retrieve an iPad from his desk. He explained that he uses a secret Twitter account—“What do they call me, a lurker?”—to keep tabs on the political conversation. “I won’t give you the name of it,” he said but “I’m following 668 people.” Swiping at his tablet, he recited some of the accounts he follows, including journalists, late-night comedians (“What’s his name, the big redhead from Boston?”), and athletes. Trump was not among them. “He tweets so much,” Romney said, comparing the president to one of his nieces who overshares on Instagram. “I love her, but it’s like, ah, it’s too much.”

It didn’t take long for the intrepid sleuths at the Atlantic to pounce on Romney’s trail of breadcrumbs and out him as Pierre Delecto.

Via The Hill, “Romney confirms name of secret Twitter account: Pierre Delecto”:

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Sunday night appeared to confirm his ownership of an anonymous Twitter account that has tweeted in his own defense to journalists and other lawmakers after the account was uncovered by Slate’s Ashley Feinberg.

In a profile of Romney published earlier on Sunday in The Atlantic, the senator said he maintained a private Twitter account that he used to keep tabs on the political discourse. “I won’t give you the name of it,” he told the publication, adding that he’s “following 668 people.”

Feinberg later reported that she had likely found the account in question, which bears no profile image and goes by the name “Pierre Delecto.” The account follows a number of Romney’s family members as well as journalists, fellow lawmakers, and former advisers to his 2012 run for president and subsequent Senate campaign.

Later on Sunday, The Atlantic reached out to Romney to confirm. Asked about the account, Romney told the publication, “C’est moi” — French for “it’s me.”

Mitt is getting absolutely taken to the woodshed on Twitter over his ridiculous spinelessness and not so secret anymore nickname.

Once the story went viral, Pierre Delecto Romney locked down the incriminating Twitter account.

Trump has yet to weigh in with his thoughts on Pierre Delecto but it is likely going to be epic when he does.

The mockery that Romney has brought upon himself is consistent with his entire political career and brings to mind the night when he was humiliated on national television by CNN’s Candy Crowley during his debate with Barack Obama in 2012.

Many have blamed his choking away of a winnable election on that priceless Mitt moment and who knows, maybe they’re right.

Aso for how this is going to affect Romney’s role in whipping Senate support to deliver enough votes to remove Trump from office is unknown but an already tall task just got a lot more difficult for a man who continues to reveal himself as a laughingstock.