Patrick Mcmahon
Hours after his chosen Republican lost a Senate primary election, President Donald Trump began deleting tweets he made in support of defeated Luther Strange and posted new tweets in favor of his opponent, Roy Moore.
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Strange and Moore ran against each other in the Alabama Republican Primary. Moore will face the Democratic candidate, Doug Jones, in a special election in December. The two are running for the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions when he assumed his current post.
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Trump had endorsed Luther Strange and tweeted that he’d been “shooting up in the Alabama polls since [Trump’s] endorsement,” reports Time Magazine. He also posted a tweet announcing a “Big election tomorrow in the Great State of Alabama” that instructed readers: “Vote for Senator Luther Strange, tough on crime & border – will never let you down!”
In place of any morning-after public loyalty to Strange, Trump apparently switched sides, making no mention of his endorsement in the race:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/912994446219898880
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/912863676792786946
There’s another twist in all this: because Donald Trump is the President of the United States, deleting tweets may be a crime.
A lawsuit filed over the summer by two watchdog groups alleges that Trump and the White House violate the Presidential Records Act by deleting emails and tweets.
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