Pro-Trump sock puppetry exposed while Erick Erickson was in the ICU?

Greg P. | 8:05 PM on April 17, 2016

Our former colleague and RedState founder Erick Erickson is recovering tonight after a major health scare that sent him to the ICU.

Erickson revealed that he was hospitalized on Thursday with a pulmonary embolism and at one point his doctors told him he “should be dead”:

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/721843132334219264

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/721843232993382400

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/721843626930782209

Great news, but get this…

His time away from Twitter exposed what looks like an automated attack from pro-Trump accounts:

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/721842587901042688

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/721842769833127936

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/721842887193980928

https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/721842949038993408

Get well soon, Erick. Something tells us the hate will only get worse once the bot account discover you were hospitalized.

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