Twitter user who started the rumor that the Washington Post paid for the Moore story is gone from Twitter

Twitter user @Umpire43 — the guy responsible for the rumor that the Washington Post paid “1000$” for the Judge Roy Moore story, is gone from Twitter:

It’s not clear if he deleted the account himself or if Twitter booted from the platform. This comes after the account mass deleted all of its tweets on Monday:

The Twitter account that launched the hoax that WaPo paid Moore's accusers $1K has now deleted years worth of tweets pic.twitter.com/1qg4zIj9BO

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) November 13, 2017

Here’s the tweet that started it all:

This is the entirety of the evidence for the garbage claim that Gateway Pundit wrote an article about. You know who writes dollar amounts as 1000$? Real Americans. pic.twitter.com/Si1STH1MUn

— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 10, 2017

Moore’s wife, Kayla, even promoted the rumor over on Facebook:

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/930114605464129537

The mass deletion and subsequent entire removal of the account occurred after multiple inconsistencies were discovered with @Umpire43’s past tweets, especially those involving his alleged military service:

https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/929103882902474759

Such as his 2, 3 or 4 Purple Hearts:

The dude attacking my newspaper over the Moore story can't remember how many purple hearts he supposedly has. pic.twitter.com/4iW4FqQR4U

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 10, 2017

The account claimed the multiple Purple Hearts were for his brothers, who allegedly died while in Vietnam. But one of the brothers who had reportedly died also lost both legs and still stood for the national anthem:

Twitter user who started the rumor that the Washington Post paid for the Moore story is gone from Twitter

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