White House jumps the gun with tweets on the jobs report

Mr. Trump alleged in a series of tweets last Saturday that Mr. Obama had let US officials conduct surveillance on the current president’s Manhattan residence previous year.

Just another day on Twitter for an administration that uses social media as one of the primary ways it communicates with the public. Like other Twitter users, he deletes tweets after they are sent because he does not like what he has just tweeted out.

This comes despite the fact that the February number is almost identical to the 238,000 created in February 2015 and 237,000 created in February 2016, the last two years of Obama’s presidency.

But the problem for the president, now that he IS president, is that deleting misspelled tweets could be breaking the law. Numerous corporate announcements of new jobs that Trump has promoted – by ExxonMobil, Intel, and Ford, for example – will take place over many years and were already planned before the election.

That’s according to Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz and Maryland Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings, chairman and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, respectively.

“We eventually set up auto-archiving for official platforms, so errors could be corrected while preserving the original”, former Obama staffer Ezra Mechaber tweeted in January. It’s setting up a scenario where he could say under oath that the President of the United States is a liar.

The committee wants a list of all senior officials covered by the acts who have used “alias email accounts” to conduct official business since the inauguration.

Julian Eccles, a British tourist who visited the White House with his eldest son in 2009, told The Independent he was disappointed not to be able to return on a trip with his younger son later this year.

“The need for data security, however, does not justify circumventing requirements established by federal recordkeeping and transparency laws”, the lawmakers wrote.

But in the six days since, Trump and his team have provided no support for his allegation, which appears to be based on an unsubstantiated Breitbart report he read that morning. It took him three times to get the word “hereby” right and he deleted the first two tweets containing typos.