Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/ReutersFor weeks, one Twitter Blue subscriber has repeatedly challenged Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida over the imprisonment of a U.S. military officer, firing off combative tweets and veiled threats demanding Japan return the soldier to American custody.Political leaders deal with armies of social media critics all the time. But in this case, the Twitter Blue user telling Kishida to “hand him over in the next seven hours”—or face consequences from the U.S.—was far from random.It was Mike Lee, the senior Republican U.S. senator from Utah. More crucially, it was Lee’s quasi-alter ego: “Based Mike Lee.”Read more at The Daily Beast.
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