Discussion: Trump's Tweets Are Presidential Records, But What About His Deletions?

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There are more eyes on this than Carter has little pills …

Every single move… will be saved …somewhere …

donnie can not escape his own quicksand —

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Hell yeah, he has to save his deleted or altered messages. If the fucking Wayback Machine can do it…why can’t the National Archives hold fast to that requirement of him? How much are these agencies gonna bend over and give this guy a free ride? He’s gonna fuck you up eventually, either way.

Hold this jackass accountable! The one and only thing we’ve learned about him besides being a fucking egomaniac is that he doesn’t want to be held accountable like every other person in government. He is a public servant now, whether he likes it or not. If he wants to be an unethical prick on top of that, it’ll come at the expense of his own tiny little twitter thumbs, and his own inability to control his impulses at self-destructive behavior. So…tough titties. Get on with making the rules and making sure he follows them. No More Special Treatment.

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I don’t develop this type of software, but some script-kitty s/b able to set up an old machine w/ a browser and a twitter account that only follows two accounts, @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS. Any time a tweet arrives, it’s automatically stored in a database.
Could be stored as a screenshot, or as whatever the API for twitter defines as the message fields.

This should be easy for someone out there. Maybe even have several, one for each of the twitter accounts for each of the twits that now occupies the WH.
One of the nice things about the internet is that it’s awfully hard to unpost a message.
Somewhere, Emily Litella is laughing her scrawny little ass off.

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I’m sure that, like the 22 million emails the Shrubya administration preserved … oh, wait …

Here’s a link to the whole episode.

http://www.cartooncrazy.me/watch/the-muppet-show-season-03-episode-013-gilda-radner/ —

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I just called my Representative, a classic Red State asshat, and asked him to uphold the Constitution and begin the impeachment of Comrade Coir Coif. He won’t. But I know it makes him nervous when he knows we are watching.

A Congress Critter’s worst nightmare? A phone call from a polite but pissed constituent on the other end.

Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121

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If it’s published, it goes to all his followers and is public. If he corrects or deletes that late, that’s public too.

This is a no brainer. The original is public, the correction is too.

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