Trump just deleted every single press-release he made as a candidate.

[DetlefK]

http://gizmodo.com/president-trump-deletes-every-old-press-release-but-th-1795042808

Yesterday, journalists discovered that the Trump regime had deleted the president’s infamous press release from 2015 that called for a ban on all Muslims traveling to the United States. But it wasn’t just the Muslim ban. Every single press release from before January 1, 2017 has been erased from donaldjtrump.com. Thankfully, the internet never forgets.

As Russ Kick from the website Memory Hole notes, every Trump/Pence 2016 campaign press release that was deleted this week has been backed up by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. It’s almost impossible to completely erase something from the internet these days—for better and for worse.

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For instance, you can still read Trump’s original December 7, 2015 press release that starts with the unambiguous call to ban all Muslims from entering the US:

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"When we win on November 8th, and elect a Republican Congress, we will be able to immediately repeal and replace Obamacare. I will ask Congress to convene a special session."

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There’s also “Donald J. Trump’s New Deal For Black America,” which includes his 10-point “plan for urban renewal. Number three would be especially interesting for anyone who’s paid attention to the track record of Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions:

3. Equal Justice Under the Law. We will apply the law fairly, equally and without prejudice. There will be only one set of rules – not a two-tiered system of justice. Equal justice also means the same rules for Wall Street.

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And how about Trump’s April 5, 2016 press release with his repeated promise to get Mexico to pay for a wall at the US-Mexico border?

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And don’t forget Trump’s October 18, 2016 press release promising to propose a Constitutional Amendment to set up term limits on members of Congress. We haven’t heard about that one in quite a while.

[Achilleaze]

1. Wow, the republican Ministry of Truthiness is busy, busy, busy

burying facts and documents, so that new, improved Big Republican Lies can live in degenerate ignominy.

[progressoid]

12. doubleplusgood!

[Cirque du So-What]

30. Thing is

the internet doesn't have a 'memory hole'. Whatever goes on the internet stays on the internet.

[forgotmylogin]

37. 45, or whoever did this

Probably think they're so smart and clever. "Where did you get those releases? Those aren't our releases, as you can see, they're not on our website..."

[workinclasszero]

48. +100

Fuck off republican LIARS!

[Demsrule86]

2. Too late...there are multiple copies.

[gratuitous]

16. Yeah, as a lot of people can attest

That's not how the Internet works.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Sounds like the reaction from someone who has lawyered up.

[mopinko]

4. oh please, oh please, oh please.

[Scarsdale]

5. Term limits?

He can not do that, or the gop will abandon him. All the old goats like McCain, McConnel, Graham and a host of others would be horrified if they lost their do nothing, get paid plenty jobs. McConnell's wife got a position in the administration, then refused to allow a SC vote. Will Cindy McCain get the job they are talking about for her, to keep little lumpy Johnny onboard? Follow the $$$ and the appointments to get to the truth. Can anyone remind me when Ivanka tRump was elected to office? Seems she is in on everything. Is she there to keep daddy placated, or what?

[SeattleVet]

33. If they ever passed anything on term limits...

you can bet your ass that anyone who was in office when it went into effect would be grandfathered in and exempt from the new restrictions. It's the way that they always do these things.

[Princess Turandot]

25. The Muslim Ban press release came up yesterday during the hearing on the travel ban...

at the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. One of the justices asked if the document was still available. The plaintiffs' attorney said it was still online, likely because he didn't know that it had been, or was about to be deleted by Trump.

I think the deletions across the board likely related to the above.

BTW, the Muslim Ban release has been captured by the Internet Archive nearly 750 times since 12/2016. They have a feature which allows a user to simply request that they archive the document again at any point in time. (They keep all archived copies.) It was archived 5 times yesterday; it was on the third capture that the information was revealed to having been blanked out.

[Baitball Blogger]

26. Nothing better than facts to work with.

Thank you.

[Demtexan]

6. Once on the internet.

Always on the internet.

[TheBlackAdder]

41. Trump might shut that thing down.

.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029035134


You never know. I'm sure he has folks looking into it right now. Expect a 5AM tweet tomorrow.

.

[Demtexan]

51. He is running scared.

Of course it would crash everything but I do not think they care.

No internet no banking or selling.

No hotel reservations.

Damn.

Bring the whole country to a stop.

[GeorgeGist]

65. No tweets

[Crash2Parties]

57. That was facetious, but all it takes is one ICE/NSA raid.

(or just remove them from the DNS)

No day in court, no paper trail, no accountability. That's how DMCA raids work. Entire server farms simply...disappear. Like this was Russia, or something.

[TheBlackAdder]

59. I know, I was playing along, linking to it. That's the concern why they mirror their site in Canada.

[dixiegrrrrl]

60. Brings up an interesting point..

How many police/ICE/etc agencies will respond to any of Trump's orders now that he has fired people for standing up to him?

[niyad]

7. how is it that not a single puke, rwnj, general asshole seems to understand that once it is out

there, in print, online, on video, etc. SOMEBODY has it. somebody took a screen shot, dumped it into a file, etc.

technology is, apparently, beyond them.

[uponit7771]

9. +1,

[DownriverDem]

15. Exactly

It's amazing that repubs still don't get how the internet all works. Seriously.

[Mr.Bill]

40. How the internet works?

Hell, they don't even know how a video or audio recording works.

[hibbing]

46. Of course they do, it' s series of tubes n/t

[Wawannabe]

49. Microwaved tubes man

[PJMcK]

32. Coherent thought is beyond them (n/t)

[Tanuki]

8. "cache" is our friend! eom

[mwooldri]

21. I suspect that the Wayback Machine will itself be cached.

Just in case its owners get a takedown request.

[Hekate]

52. I thought that was already taking place at a location in Canada

That is, if I recall one of Rachel's broadcasts correctly. The owners/operators were getting the vibe pretty strongly.

[Orrex]

10. If I did that, it would be obstruction of justice

If Trump does it, it's "Let's bomb North Korea."

[Honeycombe8]

11. As every teen w/a nudie photo on FB can attest, once it's out there, it's out there forever.

They were "press" releases. The press has them, as a starting place. Then add to that hundreds of other internet sites and newspapers and other media.

Trump is learning that he can't escape from his past.

Of course, he'll use the lack of his official release to claim, "That's fake news! I didn't say that!"

[Hekate]

13. Mr Trump, meet the Wayback Machine

Rachel will be happy to introduce you to the concept

[Wawannabe]

50. Hope

She reads a bunch of em on air soon.

[DownriverDem]

14. Really deleted?

I can't believe that some high tech left leaner won't be able to get them all back.

[niyad]

17. hey, even my lame "recovery" program would probably work. did they scrub the hard drive?

[procon]

18. They really can't be that stoopy... right?

They must have some smart people working in IT that would tell them they can't undo what the Intertubes haz wrought, and surely the PR dept must have warned them that the optics would feed several more news cycles that will heap still more criticisms on Trump's floundering efforts to make himself appear like a real precedent.

[Sculpin Beauregard]

19. He's an idiot, doing things that idiots do. Carry on, IDIOTUS, carry on.

snicker

[Zambero]

20. Screen Grab Trumps Mr. Pussy Grab

Ain't "fake technology" a bitch???

[NoMoreRepugs]

22. The spin on this should be interesting once Spicey is asked about it...

[Mr. Ected]

23. Next, he'll pull out all the wires in the White House

That way no one can tapp him!

[L. Coyote]

24. Isn't trump supposed to be working on a Tuesday. I know Tuesday isn't golf day.

[C_U_L8R]

27. How dumb can one Trump go?

Stupidest President... ever.

[Mr. Evil]

28. Of course His Orange Shitness

is stupid enough to believe that by deleting all of this material it is gone forever and no one can call him out on any of it.
What I would really love (in a perfect world) is if a hacker took all of the deleted material and put it back where it all was.

[Historic NY]

31. Yup, he hasn't a clue how things work....

waybackmachine will hound him to death.

[bucolic_frolic]

29. Trump thinks this will cover it up?

Seriously?

Maybe he should pile some more orange hair on it, we still don't know
what's under there

[SunSeeker]

34. Well, it does delete it for his dumbass followers who only look to him for facts. nt

[hunter]

35. Donald Trump's "campaign" for a second term...

... is nothing more than a tool for accepting bribes and fleecing his ignorant flock.

He really doesn't care how deleting this material looks to anyone else.

[AgadorSparticus]

36. Man, does he really think you can just simply delete something on tge internet?

What kind of special stupid is this?

[Stuart G]

39. Now...you have hit it..........."special stupid" yes indeed...

These people are not just stupid....they are........... special stupid..........

[Adrahil]

38. The Internet never forgets NT

[Mountain Mule]

42. Wayback Machine appears to be a shill for the Trump campaign?

I clicked on Gizmodo's link for Wayback Machine, and the site came up festooned with dumpf propaganda. If they continue to archive material that dolt 45 deems as best forgotten, won't they just delete it there, as well?

Source:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170428091433/https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases

[Ms. Toad]

54. I don't think you understand what the Wayback machine is.

The wayback machine continuously crawls the web, archiving every page it finds. It isn't a shill for the Trump campaign, anymore than it is a shill for the Hillary Clinton campaign. https://web.archive.org/web/20160425080015/https://www.hillaryclinton.com/

Trump can't delete his old pages from there, since he doesn't own it.

[Mountain Mule]

61. Thank you, Ms. Toad!

No, I hadn't understood what it was. I didn't have the time to do more than glance at it briefly. Now that I've gotten a chance to look it over properly, I see what it is. Thanks!


(silly me!)

[Ms. Toad]

62. It's extremely helpful if you need to find documents that were once posted online

but have vanished.

I have used it extensively both in patent prosecution/invalidity opinions to establish whether something was new or not - and in litigation when the timing of events mattered.

[Blue_true]

43. The most corrupt Administration in history, by a long shot. nt

[Sunlei]

44. don't forget all the crazy Republican claims in 2015/2016-were also covered in WH pressers questions

The press asked Obama White House many,many questions about the Republican party candidates crazy wall claims and Republicans Muslim ban 'ideas'.

100s of press questions about the Russian hackings of DNC, 72 hour deportation of 55? Russian buddies of Republicans and other email account hackings are all documented in permanent government archived records.

Mr. Trump should really read the last couple months of DAILY pressers our past Admin. had.

Mr. Trump should really study from the entire old White House website, the current Republican controlled WH website is so obviously full of bullshit lies and cons.

[IronLionZion]

45. I read about this in a book about animals on a farm

[workinclasszero]

47. Erase this BLOTUS Trump!

[pansypoo53219]

53. follow the tweet.

or video. turnip is not that smart, is he.

[keithbvadu2]

55. Trump made a lot of promises... documented 663 of them

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-made-a-lot-of-promises-about-what-he-will-do-as-president-weve-documented-663-of-them-3d28f0131e7f

Trump made a lot of promises about what he will do as president. We’ve documented 663 of them.

[Susan Calvin]

56. And this is why I give $5 to the Internet Archive every month. nt

[samplegirl]

58. I'm sure The Memory

Hole had it documented.

[napi21]

63. So, the JA still doesn't realize there are video tapes and they're in every news network's library?

That's like the criminal who deletes all his emails, not recognizing that many IT security folks are still able to extract those deleted files from the hard drive. He must be so scared of what the investigation is going to find, his brain isn't capable of thinking at all.

[lindysalsagal]

64. This is a stronger indication of fRump's imminent demise than any news report.

He's so stupid, he incriminates himself with every word. Moron.