In a since-deleted Twitter post, Ian Kelly, who has held various White House positions under the Obama and Trump administrations including a year as State Department spokesperson under Hillary Clinton, posted the request "Somebody please follow her money" as a quote tweet to my aforementioned thread. 

I drew attention to his post immediately, because holy shit what the actual fuck.

Caitlin Johnstone ? @caitoz

Is this account real? Is a former US State Department spokesman actually soliciting people to investigate my finances because I said the US instigated this war to advance pre-existing agendas? https://t.co/K4Ac35Hk8D

March 26th 2022

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Kelly responded "Yep" when I asked if his unverified account actually belonged to a prominent White House diplomat.