Why did Delaware Governor Jack Markell (D) tweet a bondage photo on his Twitter account?

His press office is still trying to explain after deleting the tweet and posting an apology on his account.

According to a statement from Markell’s office, the picture was “random.”

“While the tweet was being edited, the auto-generated link for the picture was inadvertently altered,” a statement from Markel’s Press Secretary, Kelly Bachman explained to TPM. “As a result, the picture linked to the tweet was a random, unrelated, and inappropriate picture that has been on the internet since 2010, and not the just-uploaded picture of the event. The tweet was deleted and we apologize for the error.”

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