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Showing Original Post only (View all)WH aides couldn't reach Trump for THREE HOURS to ask about deleting "white power" retweet [View all]
NBC reporting that the retweet had set off a "five-alarm fire" at the WH, but Trump was golfing and had PUT DOWN HIS PHONE, and aides couldn't reach Dan Scavino either.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-s-white-power-retweet-set-five-alarm-fire-white-n1232495
President Donald Trump set off a "five-alarm fire" in the White House on Sunday morning after he retweeted a video of one of his supporters saying "white power," according to two White House officials.
The video remained on the president's Twitter page, where he has 82 million followers, for more than three hours because White House officials couldn't reach him to ask him to delete it, the two officials said. The president was at his golf club in Virginia and had put his phone down, the officials said.
Aides also tried unsuccessfully to reach deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino to ask him to delete the retweet, officials said.
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Once officials were able to reach the president, he agreed to delete it, they said.
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The video remained on the president's Twitter page, where he has 82 million followers, for more than three hours because White House officials couldn't reach him to ask him to delete it, the two officials said. The president was at his golf club in Virginia and had put his phone down, the officials said.
Aides also tried unsuccessfully to reach deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino to ask him to delete the retweet, officials said.
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Once officials were able to reach the president, he agreed to delete it, they said.
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Mindboggling incompetence.
Editing to add a tweet from Walter Shaub, since it matches my wondering if possibly this is just the cover story for the delay in deleting that "white power" retweet:
Tweeted by Shaub a few minutes ago:
Link to tweet
It took hours for Trump to delete his "white power" retweet. The claim now is that he couldn't be reached while golfing. This leaves 2 horrifying possibilities: (1) his staff wouldn't know how to reach him in an emergency or (2) it took hours to persuade him to delete the video.
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WH aides couldn't reach Trump for THREE HOURS to ask about deleting "white power" retweet [View all]
highplainsdem
Jun 2020
OP
NBC's Maya Wiley: Reading this I just had an image of Keystone cops in white robes
highplainsdem
Jun 2020
#3
Wouldn't it be great if he'd just leave the phone and golf the rest of his term?
dawg day
Jun 2020
#6
So in the event of a national security emergency, the President will be incommunicado . . .
Journeyman
Jun 2020
#7
Maybe those claiming this are so ignorant they simply don't realize the dire implications
bobbieinok
Jun 2020
#31
As mentioned in the excerpt in the OP, the aides reportedly tried to reach Dan Scavino, who could
highplainsdem
Jun 2020
#29
Well, his base of gullible morons repeats ad-nauseam he donates his salary...
Lock him up.
Jun 2020
#56
The Secret Device's primary function is protection, so they're not the first go to
StarfishSaver
Jun 2020
#52
I thought he wasn't supposed to delete these as they were considered official WH messages?
vsrazdem
Jun 2020
#44
We'll need to erase #45 from our U.S. Presidential history, and move from #44 to #46.
C Moon
Jun 2020
#49
I bet he wasn't golfing. The pervy wanker was probably watching porn for 3 hours. nt
Quixote1818
Jun 2020
#55