Watchdog Says Biden Admin Violated Presidential Records Act By Deleting Fact Checked Tweet
- November 5, 2022
Staff, Conservative News Daily
A watchdog group is calling for a federal investigation into a tweet that the White House deleted this week, arguing that the Biden administration may have violated the Presidential Records Act.
Protect the Public’s Trust, a nonpartisan organization, argued there are “serious questions” over whether presidential record-keeping protocols were properly followed before the White House on Wednesday deleted the widely mocked tweet taking credit for a boost in retirees’ Social Security checks.
The Nov. 1 tweet is “almost certainly a record that belongs to the public and subject to the Act’s destruction protocol,” the group wrote in a letter sent to the heads of the National Archives and Records Administration and the Office of Government Ethics on Friday.
“Outside of the unprecedented reliance on the Act to support a subpoena to search the home of a former U.S. President, the Act and its enforcement have historically received little attention,” wrote Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, referencing the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to search for presidential records.