President Donald Trump’s use of Twitter is well known by now.
Trump turns to Twitter to take his message — whether he’s tweaking Arnold Schwarzenegger, blasting the dishonest media or accusing his predecessor of high crimes — to his 26.3 million followers.
What were once just dispatches from Trump — like when he weighed in on the relationship troubles of “Twilight” stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson — are now presidential records.
Even the ones with typos.
And, in a rare display of bipartisanship in Congress, the leaders of the House Oversight Committee want to make sure Trump is taking proper care to ensure the electronic records of his Twitter missives are preserved.
Republican Jason Chaffetz, the committee chairman, and Democrat Elijah Cummings, the ranking member, sent a letter to White House lawyer Don McGhan asking the White House to tell the committee about “policies and procedures” to ensure tweets and other social media accounts “are properly secured and preserved as presidential records.”
Trump has deleted several tweets from his accounts since becoming president, usually to fix typos. The letter addresses those deleted messages. “If those tweets were not archived it could pose a violation of the Presidential Records Act,” the letter states.
Trump posted the same tweet three times over the weekend as he worked to correct the spelling of “hereby.”