Donald Trump doesn’t like Mitt Romney. Neither did Russian trolls.

Now-deleted social media posts show a push by accounts linked to Russian propaganda farm the Internet Research Agency to spread #NeverRomney messages, and in some cases to urge people to protest Trump’s possible nomination of Romney as secretary of state, according to an analysis by the Wall Street Journal.

The Journal’s report comes during the same week a New Yorker article suggested that the Kremlin may have asked President Trump not to choose Romney — who during his presidential run in 2012 called Russia the United States’ worst enemy — as secretary of state. That article cites a memo by Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the now-famous dossier of allegations about Trump-Russia ties.

The Romney-as-secretary-of-state flirtation was brief. During the presidential campaign, Trump and Romney derided each other in public. Then when Trump became president, the two seemed to put aside their differences, only for Trump to choose Rex Tillerson as secretary of state a month later. Tillerson, the former ExxonMobil chairman and chief executive, had managed that company’s Russia account and was awarded the Order of Friendship by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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The Journal’s analysis shows social media trolls bombarded Facebook, Instagram and Twitter with posts slamming the former governor of Massachusetts. Russian-linked accounts, some with tens of thousands of followers, called Romney a “two-headed snake” and a “globalist puppet,” and circulated a petition to try to make sure Romney didn’t get the secretary of state position. One such Facebook group, called Being Patriotic, which had bought pro-Trump Facebook ads, was the one that urged a protest outside Trump Tower over a possible Romney nomination.