David Ferriero, the head of the National Archives, assured two concerned Democratic senators in a letter last week that the White House will save all of the president’s tweets.
Since Trump largely communicates through his Twitter account, the archivers reached out the White House to see if the social media blasts could be preserved as part of the Presidential Records Act.
Ferriero reportedly responded to Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Miss.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.) who raised the concern that the president deleted and corrected some tweets. They also wrote to White House counsel Don McGahn on the matter.
It is unclear what precise method will be used to save Trump’s tweets.
Ferriero said it is unclear how Trump’s communications with other agencies are being preserved, and what the White House policy for the agencies on this matter is.
McCaskill and Carper pressed Ferriero about preserving communication from four of Trump’s top aides, after Newsweek reported that chief strategist Steve Bannon, counselor Kellyanne Conway, senior adviser and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, and press secretary Sean Spicer "maintained active email accounts on a private email system” through the Republican National Committee system.
In early February, two White House officials involved in the archives and presidential materials division wrote that the president and White House counsel were "solely responsible for managing presidential records,” the AP reports.
They said the archivers will serve in a primarily advisory role, adding that presidential records can only be thrown out if the Trump administration consults the archivers officially through writing.
/The Hill/
White House will preserve all of Trump's tweets: reports
04 April 2017
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The White House has agreed preserve each of President Donald Trump's tweets, even deleted or amended ones, following the request of the National Archives and Records Administration, according to a Monday Associated Press report.
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