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Let’s discuss this calmly.
The President is entitled to have a personal non-government Twitter account that he posts his personal and partisan political views to. A government account would not permit him to post partisan politics activities to. And he can treat his non-government social media account the same way any American can.
There is no such things as deleting a tweet. Someone saw it before it was deleted and saved it
No. In the same way that Hillary was required to keep copies of her private emails that had any work-related subject matter, so is Trump. Any Tweets on national policy issues are “work-related”; any tweets regarding his personal social life (assuming he has any) or his views on a movie he saw over the weekend can be deleted.
Dorah, so if the President sends Eric Trump an email from his personal account asking his thoughts about healthcare, it must be sent to the National Archives from his trumporganization.com address?
Since the president, and all political office holders, are working 24/7 (unlike lowly civil servants who have fixed schedules, get paid overtime and have guaranteed vacations), and argument can and is being made that political office holders (including the president and the cabinet) have no “private” email or twittering, etc., since they are doing the work on company time, and it is clearly job related. Once you decide that a politician is “on duty 24/7” then all of their “work product” is subject to federal records keeping laws and need to be archived for posterity. Whether this is a wise policy, or even a feasible one, is yet to be determined.
why would it be? why would there be a difference between the president and someone else?
There are 2 or possibly 3 statutes, including one specifically focused on the Office of the President, which require retention of ANY work-related documents, including emails, Tweets, blog postings etc. These rules have been upheld by the courts. Retention doesn’t mean public disclosure and indeed, presidents may specify that certain documents be kept confidential (by the National Archives) for many years after they leave office. A tweet, by definition, is a public document and must be retained. A tweet with his son regarding “business’ would violate their ethics commitments but would still be work-related since they are required to maintain records showing they complied with those ethics commitments.
So every covfefe typo must be archived?
Presidents have the same rights as other US citizens. They have responsibilities that are unlike other US citizens. First responsibility: don’t be stupid. Trump’s not doing too good on that one.
“So every covfefe typo must be archived?”
Ah but it wasnt a typo as dearest Sean Spicer said “The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant”
Luckily I am one of that small group of people.I’m jealous.
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