Florida Panthers exec appears to post vulgar rant on X, calling Canada 51st state
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'Hey what's worse, using headshots to win a series or using starvation as a weapon to win a war?' the post on X read.
Cifu allegedly replied, writing: 'Actually being a whiny dope anti semite is clearly worse. Loser.'
'Not approving of using starvation as a weapon makes me a bigot? Got it,' Dr. Grizzo replied. 'Get some sleep man, market opens early tomorrow. Best of luck frontrunning Robinhood traders you MAGA d*** licker.'
After the exchange, the account appearing to belong to Cifu went private.
The bio for the account with the handle @Dougielarge reads 'Partner Cup Champ Florida Panthers and CEO of Virtu Financial (VIRT). Shill Team 6 Leader. All tweets mine.'
This is followed by the word 'Israel' and five Israel flag emojis.
This is not the first time that Cifu has seemingly been caught making disparaging comments online.
In a post from the same account on X, Cifu allegedly made disparaging comments about a user by calling them a 'sad creepy loser' and inferring they are 'special needs.'
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