Kelly should use this as a strong-arm opportunity to take his fucking phone away for the duration.
You can’t use such a staggeringly uncontrolled and insecure system for national security and official government communication. You just can’t.
Glorious twitter thread about Trump’s twitter (and interview) rants about ‘going after Clinton’ - and what it says about the DOJ - for now. Click to read the whole thread.
I mean ‘seriously’ we should have an investigation into this rogue employee and punish them for taking away Donnie’s twitter account…I mean who DOES that? WAY too much ‘power’…oh holy CRAP it was eleven minutes, it was a joke. After all the garbage he spews over spitter, taking down his account for 11 minutes is some kind of freakin’ crime???
LOL LOL LOL
Donald J. Trump 
@realDonaldTrump
My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee. I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact.
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You make it sound like Kelly hasn’t gone to the dark side and decided to be actively complicit.
Too bad this former employee/folk hero wasn’t able to delete the entire account in a way that couldn’t be restored.
My mood will lighten once Tramp clears US air space.
Yes. Committing crimes is not okay because they were committed against someone we don’t like. Similarly, it is not okay to doggedly pursue somebody for crimes they didn’t commit because we don’t like them.
We cannot go bellyache about oooh the rule of law, wow, very important over in a Trump DOJ interference comment section, then come over here and say “well actually committing crimes is funny and excellent.”
Rule of law is rule of law. I laughed, because fuck Donald Trump, but this employee will likely face prosecution, as they should.
No, not at all.
I think Kelly values trustworthy, reliable communications. If and when he thinks we ought to blow North Korea to kingdom come (god help us), he wants the order to come through secure channels, not social media.
Hah. Someone give that rogue ex-employee a medal…or at least buy him/her lunch.
That person is a some kind of hero.
Eleven minutes. How did they know the account was suspended? Is that how long (longer than?) President Dipshit can be away from twitter without a panic attack?
Someone elsewhere commented that if that person’s name were published, he or she would never again have to buy a beer.
The Hair Furor got his comeuppance. He must have gone limp during those 11 minutes.
Hero
How long did it take to resuscitate him, and why’d they bother to bring him back. Fool can’t live without the tweet machine. Probably Obama’s fault.
He’s too busy rewriting the history of the Civil War and slavery, coming up with lies about black congresspeople, and supporting donnie’s strikes on gold start famlies to find time for that.
This man deserves all the good pizza
I am not a lawyer, but I have a hard time seeing how this is a crime. In fact, here is an opinion article from five days ago arguing that Twitter could ban him for violating it’s rules/terms of service. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/28/trump-breaks-twitters-rules-so-why-not-ban-him
I’m not either, but some legal minds I follow consider it a pretty open-and-shut violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. As I understand it, Twitter absolutely count ban him for TOS violations, but a Twitter employee acting outside of his or her authority within the organization “intentionally accesses a protected computer without authorization” and causes damage and so on.
CFAA is mostly a 1986 (!!!) statute, so there’s a huge body of legal interpretation used to mash it into our modern IT universe. I’m woefully underqualified to try to understand any of it.
Hillary did it. Time for more GOP investigations of a private citizen. snark