Alabama Republican deletes Twitter account after mocking Capitol attack arrests

Just over an hour after light was shined on a pair of weekend tweets made by freshman GOP Rep. Barry Moore about last week's U.S. Capitol attack, the Alabama Republican deleted his personal Twitter account on Sunday afternoon.

In a tweet sent Saturday, Moore belittled the furor over the U.S. Capitol attack, where supporters of President Trump ransacked the Capitol, and killed a U.S. Capitol Police officer.

"Wow we have more arrests for stealing a podium on January 6th than we do for stealing an election on November 3rd!" Moore wrote, referring the arrest of a Florida man who looted a lectern from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

In the same tweet, Moore claimed there was demonstrative evidence of election fraud which was being ignored in Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Detroit, all three cities with large African-American populations.

While President Trump routinely made charges about fraud after the November elections, no concrete evidence ever surfaced - but many like the marchers who attacked the Capitol on Sunday believed in those assertions made by Rep. Moore and other GOP lawmakers.

In a second tweet from Saturday - which Moore deleted even before getting rid of his personal Twitter account - Moore raised racial questions related to the police shooting death of a woman who was trying to break into an area just off the House floor, where lawmakers were sheltering from the Wednesday attack by Trump supporters.

"I Understand it was a black police officer that shot the white female veteran," Moore wrote, referring to the former Air Force veteran who was killed by police.

"You know that doesn't fit the narrative," Moore added.

He quickly deleted the tweet, but it was still available from the site Politwoops, which tracks deleted social media material from lawmakers in Congress.

While Moore deleted his personal @BarryMoore account, he still has his official Congressional account, @RepBarryMoore.