Trump library says no Twitter DMs can be found, despite evidence he sent them [View all]
Source: Washington Post
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Trump library says no Twitter DMs can be found, despite evidence he sent them
Records show that Trump's first administration opted not to save DMs in its library archives, raising questions about compliance with the Presidential Records Act.
June 3, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. EDT Today at 5:00 a.m. EDT
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By Nate Jones
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/nate-jones/
The newly operational Trump Presidential Library, the entity responsible for preserving records from the White House, says that it cannot find a single Twitter direct message sent by a president who tweeted more than 25,000 times during his first administration.
This no-records response to a Freedom of Information Act request from The Washington Post comes as the Trump administration argues it does not need to follow the Presidential Records Act, a law designed to ensure the public has access to records of the president after he leaves office.
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