Featured Congress Warns Donald Trump: Stop Deleting Your Tweets

This administration is going to have more ethics problems than Carter has liver pills.
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When President Donald Trump or a member of his staff deletes a tweet, they may be violating federal law, two top congressmen warned the White House this week.

Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), chairman and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, sent a letter to White House counsel Don McGahn on Wednesday expressing concerns about the Trump administration’s record keeping habits and its nontransparent use of social media and other forms of electronic communication.

One example the lawmakers cited is Trump’s habit of misspelling and then deleting tweets, which they warned “could pose a violation to the Presidential Records Act” if the deleted tweets are not archived.

“Many of the messages sent from these accounts are likely to be presidential records and therefore must be preserved,” they wrote, referring to both Trump’s personal @realDonaldTrump account and his official @POTUS account. “It has been reported, however, that President Trump has deleted tweets, and if those tweets were not archived, it could pose a violation of the Presidential Records Act,” Chaffetz and Cummings wrote in the letter.

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I thought you were a law and order fellow.

By the way, historians and history lover would love antidotes of the type you posted. They give insights into the people posting them.

And, it is the law and Trump should be made to obey the law.

 

Silly argument. Where does the Constitution say it is legal to have speed limits or a whole host of other laws we have that could not be conceived of in colonial days as they had no technology to present these potential problems.

Trump is violating the Presidential Records Act.

From: https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/laws/1978-act.html

The Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978, 44 U.S.C. ß2201-2209, governs the official records of Presidents and Vice Presidents created or received after January 20, 1981. The PRA changed the legal ownership of the official records of the President from private to public, and established a new statutory structure under which Presidents must manage their records.

Specifically, the Presidential Records Act:

• Defines and states public ownership of the records.
• Places the responsibility for the custody and management of incumbent Presidential records with the President.
• Allows the incumbent President to dispose of records that no longer have administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value, once he has obtained the views of the Archivist of the United States on the proposed disposal.
• Requires that the President and his staff take all practical steps to file personal records separately from Presidential records.
• Establishes a process for restriction and public access to these records. Specifically, the PRA allows for public access to Presidential records through the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) beginning five years after the end of the Administration, but allows the President to invoke as many as six specific restrictions to public access for up to twelve years. The PRA also establishes procedures for Congress, courts, and subsequent Administrations to obtain special access to records that remain closed to the public, following a thirty-day notice period to the former and current Presidents..
• Requires that Vice-Presidential records are to be treated in the same way as Presidential records.

Concerning Bill Clinton .. he was not stupid enough to keep a list or to email a list to others. If he had he would have to leave them in the public record. [How about asking intelligent questions. Thanks in advance.]

 

Was Hillary ever president? NO! So the Presidential Records Act has nothing to do with her.

Please try to ask an intelligent question.

 

It is not a matter of being manipulated. It is a matter of obeying the law.

 

You must care. You replied.

The public not caring is how autocrats become dictators.

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind