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The Campbell Soup lobbyist who tweeted that George Soros was helping to finance the caravan of immigrants heading to the US border left the company last week after accelerating the already scheduled departure of his departure.
"Mr. Johnston and the company announced in August that he would be leaving his position with his departure scheduled for early November," a spokesman for the company told The Hill by email.
"In recent days, the company and Mr. Johnston have agreed that under the current circumstances, it would be better to expedite the departure of his departure."
Thursday was Kelly Johnston's last day, Campbell's spokesman told The Hill.
CNN Business announced Johnston's exit earlier Sunday.
Johnston was formerly vice president of government affairs at Campbell.
Last Monday, Johnston tweeted that the organization of Democratic donor Soros, Open Society Foundations, was responsible for the caravan of immigrants.
"You see these vans right? What you do not see are the troop carriers and wagons taking them north," he wrote in a tweet that has since been deleted. "@OpenSociety has planned and is running this, including where they are doing their needs.And they have an army of US immigration lawyers waiting at the border."
Johnston has since deleted his Twitter account.
Campbell distanced himself from Johnston's tweet last Tuesday when he wrote that "Johnston's views on Twitter are his personal opinions and do not represent Campbell Soup Company's position".
Soros was one of many Democratic personalities to have been the target of an explosive device in his mail last week.
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