@POTUS Twitter account was linked to personal Gmail account for days

Published January 26, 2017 6:27pm ET



The email linked to the @POTUS Twitter account, the official Twitter account of the presidency, was a Gmail address until a White House email address was linked to it on Thursday.

The Washington Examiner confirmed the account linked to @POTUS was on a Gmail server and not on a White House server until just before 12:30 p.m. on Thursday. By 1 p.m., a White House email account had been added to the account, and the Gmail account disappeared.

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