President Donald Trump on Friday suggested the focus on a string of package bombs was to blame for slowing Republicans’ momentum ahead of the midterm elections, as he accused Twitter of bias and said the social-media platform has removed followers from his account.

‘BOMB STUFF’

Trump said Republicans were doing “so well” in early voting ahead of the Nov. 6 midterm elections, but momentum had slowed thanks to what he called “this ‘Bomb’ stuff.”

“News not talking politics,” Trump said in a tweet. “Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote!” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, replied in a tweet: “Pathetic. When potential terrorism strikes, we should be pulling together, not playing politics.”

Law-enforcement officials on Friday charged 56-year-old suspect Cesar Sayoc in connection with the sending of more than a dozen pipe-bomb packages to prominent Democrats and critics of Trump. Speaking at the White House at an African-American leadership summit, Trump said he’d instructed authorities “to spare no resource or expense in finding those responsible and bringing them to swift and certain justice.” At the same event, Trump criticized Democrats for policies he said had hurt black Americans. The criticism led to occasional chants including “lock ‘em up,” according to a White House pool report.

In a tweet sent past 3 a.m., Trump said “lowly rated” CNN — whose New York offices had received an explosive device — could criticize him “at will.” “Yet when I criticize them they go wild and scream, ‘it’s just not Presidential!’” A former Justice Department spokesman said comments by FBI Director Christopher Wray suggested the agency had identified Sayoc by late Thursday night, and that “surely they briefed the [White House] immediately.” That could explain Trump’s early-morning tweet, suggested ex-DOJ spokesman Matthew Miller.

CNN chief Jeff Zucker this week blasted Trump for his anti-media rhetoric.

Also read: Suspect Cesar Sayoc in custody over series of letter bombs.

TRUMP LASHES OUT AT TWITTER

Trump used his own Twitter account to criticize the company TWTR, +1.62% , saying it had “removed many people from my account.”

Twitter said in a statement that many popular accounts have seen their follower counts drop as a result of the company’s efforts to improve “the health of the service” and remove fake accounts.

Trump’s tweet continued, “A few weeks ago [Twitter] was a Rocket Ship, now it is a Blimp! Total Bias?” The president’s comments came a day after the social-media service reported third-quarter earnings and posted a decline in monthly active users, in part reflecting the effort to remove fake accounts.

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