Reps. Nancy Pelosi, Elijah Cummings fall for fake Flynn account on Twitter

Don't believe everything you see on Twitter.

Reps. Elijah Cummings and Nancy Pelosi fell for a Twitter account parodying Michael Flynn, who resigned Monday as President Trump's national security adviser for misleading the administration about his contacts with Russia.

"I believe we need to hold a public hearing with Flynn to get to the bottom of this," Cummings said during a news conference on Capitol Hill, citing the parody tweet.

Pelosi said, "The inference to be drawn from his statement is that other people had blame that should be shared in all of this."

The tweets came from an unverified account that launched this month. It has since been labeled a parody account by multiple news outlets and Snopes.

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The New York Times also fell for the parody account, writing about it in its story Monday. It later removed the mention and issued a correction.

Here's Flynn's real, verified Twitter account.

Twitter didn't appreciate the misstep. Even the Flynn account pointed it out:

Others were quick to notice: