
 
 Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. (Paul J. Richards/AFP; David Goldman/AP) 
 
 Perhaps attempting to escape the afterglow of his strange tweet that included the now famous combination of letters “covfefe,” President Trump revived his old favorite moniker for Clinton on Wednesday: “Crooked Hillary.” 
 
 He was responding to comments made by Clinton earlier in the day at the Recode Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., where she was interviewed on stage by two tech journalists and spoke in detail about the 2016 presidential election. 
 
 “I take responsibility for every decision I made, but that’s not why I lost,” she said. 
 
 Clinton pointed to several factors as the reason she lost, including fake news on Facebook and troubles at the Democratic National Committee. 
 
 At one point saying she suspects Trump’s campaign might have guided Russian government propaganda effects. 
 
 Russians wanted to spread misinformation about her, she said, but “could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided. … Guided by Americans and guided by people who had polling and data information.” 
 
 From jokes about the election outcome and the inaugural crowd size to warnings about the Trump administration's growing Russia scandal, Hillary Clinton has turned her ire on President Trump. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post) 
 
 When asked who she thought was guiding the Russians, she said, “I’m leaning Trump. I think it’s pretty hard not to.” 
 
 Several hours later, the president took to Twitter. 
 
 “Crooked Hillary Clinton now blames everybody but herself, refuses to say she was a terrible candidate. Hits Facebook & even Dems & DNC,” Trump tweeted at 8:40 p.m. EDT. 
 
 Crooked Hillary Clinton now blames everybody but herself, refuses to say she was a terrible candidate. Hits Facebook & even Dems & DNC. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 1, 2017 
 
 Less than an hour later, Clinton retweeted Trump’s insult, adding a message of her own: “People in covfefe houses shouldn’t throw covfefe.” 
 
 People in covfefe houses shouldn't throw covfefe. https://t.co/M7oK5Z6qwF — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 1, 2017 
 
 In response to Clinton’s humorous “covfefe house” tweet, Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. joined in the social media sparring match by tweeting, “What house is he in again??? That’s what I thought. You’re trying too hard.” 
 
 What house is he in again??? That's what I thought. You're trying too hard. https://t.co/9Yomz1Emb5 — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 1, 2017 
 
 Clinton’s note was a reference to the sentence fragment Trump tweeted at 12:06 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, which simply read, “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” 
 
 President Trump tweeted a garbled late-night message that baffled everyone on Twitter. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) 
 
 [Trump targets ‘negative press covfefe’ in garbled midnight tweet that becomes worldwide joke] 
 
 Within four hours, Clinton’s message had been retweeted about 150,000 times and “liked” about 320,000 times. It surpassed Trump’s original “covfefe” tweet, which was retweeted more than 127,000 times and “liked” more than 162,000 times when it was deleted. 
 
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– Time apparently does not heal all wounds. Former rivals Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton tussled on Twitter Wednesday evening, with President Trump referencing Clinton's comments at Recode's CodeCon earlier that day in which she pilloried the DNC and dished out blame for her 2016 loss to a few other entities as well. "Crooked Hillary Clinton now blames everybody but herself, refuses to say she was a terrible candidate. Hits Facebook & even Dems & DNC," tweeted the president at 8:40pm EDT. Some 50 minutes after Trump's tweet, Clinton posted this, "People in covfefe houses shouldn't throw covfefe." It was her second "covfefe" dig of the day. The Washington Post notes that Donald Trump Jr. made it a family affair, chiming in with a dig of his own on Twitter: "What house is he in again??? That's what I thought. You're trying too hard." And while Trump won the election, Clinton is winning the retweet battle: Her tweet has been retweeted a little more than 197,000 times, almost 10 times Trump's current count. (Here's how Sean Spicer explained "covfefe.")