Helen Aguirre Ferre speaks to a crowd awaiting former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush to announce his candidacy for the 2016 Presidential elections in Miami on June 15, 2015. | Getty RNC Hispanic outreach director retweets fake Trump account

The Republican National Committee's director of Hispanic communications on Monday retweeted a days-old post from a fake Donald Trump account alleging that Democrats were behind the #OperationTacoBowl hashtag.

"Wow.. this #OperationTacoBowl by the Democrats is extremely racist towards Hispanics. I wonder if the media (paid by Clinton) will show this," the account @P0TUSTrump tweeted Aug. 18. Helen Aguirre Ferré, a veteran journalist who started her job at the RNC in June, retweeted the message Monday.


The hashtag itself is in reference to Trump's tweet marking Cinco de Mayo with a photo of him enjoying a taco bowl at his Trump Tower desk, as well as leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee showing staffers discussing how to best leverage the tweet against him. Trump social media director Dan Scavino used the hashtag last Thursday, tweeting that he would share it with the GOP nominee and running mate Mike Pence.





Aguirre Ferré told POLITICO that she did not realize that the retweet came from a fake account, adding, "which is why I should wear glasses more regularly when I read."