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Trump administration has reportedly launched a probe to find out who had liked a tweet penned by Chelsea Clinton berating Donald Trump. Chelsea Clinton is the daughter of Trump’s former Democrat rival Hillary Clinton and ex-president Bill Clinton. She hit out at the U.S president in July 2017 for letting his daughter​ Ivanka Trump have a key role in a meeting with the G20. A Twitter spat between Trump and Clinton surfaced after the U.S president hit out at criticism he received for involving his daughter. Trump tweeted, “If Chelsea Clinton were asked to hold the seat for her mother, as her mother gave our country away, the Fake News would say CHELSEA FOR PRES”!

Chelsea Clinton hit back, “It would never have occurred to my mother or my father to ask me. Were you giving our country away? Hoping not”. The Daily Beast reported that a staffer at the American embassy in Brussels got a call from the State Department in Washington in July 2017 after discovering someone with access to the mission’s Twitter account had liked the above tweet by Chelsea Clinton. This tweet has now gained at least half a million likes. The publication reported almost 10 individuals were interviewed regarding whether they had either intentionally or erroneously liked the former first daughter’s tweet.

Some sources informed the Daily Beast that all of the people denied having done so. The American officials in Belgium didn’t ever manage to tell the office who had fired off the tweet and the embassy overhauled who had access to the Twitter account, just curbing it to only two people. 2 ex-White House officials claimed mention of the apparent Chelsea Clinton controversy became a point of gossip among Trump aides in the West Wing. A former White House official said, “During that first year, people were constantly trying to get other people fired; some even compiled lists of people to fire that they would show, or try to show, to the president”.