Trump deletes tweets backing Strange after primary loss

[Julian Englis]

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Tuesday began deleting his tweets supporting Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) in the Republican Alabama Senate primary after Strange lost the race to former state Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore.

Trump had tweeted about Strange several times in the days leading up to the primary, including the day of, but started to delete the tweets Tuesday night.

Those deleted tweets included those he sent the night before the election and the day of the race. A project from ProPublica documents the deleted tweets.

“Big election tomorrow in the Great State of Alabama. Vote for Senator Luther Strange, tough on crime & border — will never let you down!” read one of the deleted tweets.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/352613-trump-deletes-tweets-backing-strange-after-primary-loss

[secondwind]

1. Deleter in Chief. My hatred has no bounds.

[JI7]

2. scumbag

[keithbvadu2]

3. Didn't republicans call stuff like this 'revisionist history'?

[uppityperson]

4. What a twit. Here's a page with deleted tweets

https://factba.se/topic/deleted-tweets

Congratulations to Roy Moore on his Republican Primary win in Alabama. Luther Strange started way back & ran a good race. Roy, WIN in Nov!
Date: Sep 27, '17
ID: 912860336100904960
Author: Likely Trump
Source: Twitter
DELETED


ALABAMA, get out and vote for Luther Strange - he has proven to me that he will never let you down! #MAGA
Date: Sep 26, '17
ID: 912670906828443648
Author: Likely Staff
Source: Twitter
DELETED


Big election tomorrow in the Great State of Alabama. Vote for Senator Luther Strange, tough on crime & border - will never let you down!
Date: Sep 26, '17
ID: 912494675206053888
Author: Likely Trump
Source: Twitter
DELETED


Big election tomorrow in the Great State of Alabama. Vote for Senator Luther Strange, tough on crime & border - will never let you down!
Date: Sep 26, '17
ID: 912494675206053888
Author: Likely Trump
Source: Twitter
DELETED

[Binkie The Clown]

5. How is that different from deleted emails? It's still destruction of presidential records.

And it's probably illegal.

[rogue emissary]

12. I had the same thought when I read the headline.

He's been warned in the past that he can't delete tweets and would be in violation of the Records Act. I don't think his old personal account counts but I'm not sure which one he's deleting tweets on.

[madaboutharry]

6. The immaturity of this man is shocking.

Not a day goes by that he doesn't behave like a 3 year old.

[Kablooie]

7. All the deleted tweets and everything else are available here:

http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive

[Control-Z]

16. Did you see

how many tweets he deleted in just one day. That's astonishing. When does he find time to work?

[TeamPooka]

8. Total loser move. A strong man would leave them.

[Tactical Peek]

9. "We could use some more loyalty."

Weak.

[briv1016]

10. Down the memory hole.

‘It exists!’ he cried.
‘No,’ said O’Brien.
He stepped across the room. There was a memory hole in the opposite wall. O’Brien lifted the grating. Unseen, the frail slip of paper was whirling away on the current of warm air; it was vanishing in a flash of flame. O’Brien turned away from the wall.
‘Ashes,’ he said. ‘Not even identifiable ashes. Dust. It does not exist. It never existed.’
‘But it did exist! It does exist! It exists in memory. I remember it. You remember it.’
‘I do not remember it,’ said O’Brien.

Orwell, George. 1984

[LudwigPastorius]

11. What a pusillanimous punk.

Trump is a gutless sack of whale shit.

[SeattleVet]

13. Wait a minute!

Since he's using his tweets as POTUS, shouldn't they be classified as "Official Records" and subject to the Records Preservation Act? I know that I would have had some serious explaining to do had I deleted any official communications when I was doing things for the federal government. Since he's using the Twitter account in his official capacity, these should fall under the umbrella of government records.

[Dave Starsky]

20. Do ANY of the rules or laws matter with Donald Trump?

No.

[fierywoman]

14. Tomorrow he'll start saying: isn't it wonderful how my guy Moore won.

[dhill926]

25. exactly......

and his followers won't even notice. Hell....they no doubt like Moore....

[SergeStorms]

15. Trump is a gutless punk.

He doesn't have the courage to stand behind his convictions (on those rare times when he even has convictions)!

He deletes the tweets because he doesn't want to be seen as backing a loser. If he carried that same attitude into his personal life, he - and almost everyone he knows - would have been deleted from this planet decades ago.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Destruction of official records in violation of the Presidential Records Act. nt

[Achilleaze]

18. 1984, republican style

Comrade Casino, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, pissing on the truth again. Sad. Dangerous. Wrong.

[Oneironaut]

19. lol What an ass

"Whaaat? Donald Trump (third person reference) never supported that LOSER! Donald Trump only backs win-ners! Donald Trump supported Roy Moore 105%, and that's why he won."

[Javaman]

21. the tRumpster fire will now come out and say he never backed strange. lol nt

[Bengus81]

22. Hey Donnie are your tired of WINNING yet?!?!

[bucolic_frolic]

23. "tough on crime and border"

but not white collars and Russians, right?

[Sunlei]

24. now trumps going to have to support the judge removed from the bench for cray-cray

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Why not embrace Moore? Moore, like trump and the deplorables, has zero brains

(has to hire someone to tie his shoes for him)

Has no education (whatever education he claims to have he either bought or cheated on), and has the mindset of a 9 yr old child who is spoiled and mad at the world.

Just like trump and fans, so what isnt to like!