Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., chided counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway on Thursday, after her husband deleted some unfavorable tweets about President Trump.
“Dear @KellyannePolls: You might want to let your husband know that deleting tweets doesn’t actually make them go away,” Lieu tweeted Thursday evening. “Remember when @Scaramucci tried to do the same thing? It doesn’t take a computer science major to understand that the internet records everything you post.”
Dear @KellyannePolls: You might want to let your husband know that deleting tweets doesn’t actually make them go away. Remember when @Scaramucci tried to do the same thing? It doesn’t take a computer science major to understand that the internet records everything you post. https://t.co/DpXZWHv9VN
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 29, 2018
The comment comes after CNN published a report that conservative lawyer George Conway had deleted several tweets commenting on Trump’s legal fights and why Trump has struggled to find someone to replace Hope Hicks as his communications director.
In one interaction, George Conway responded to a CNN reporter after Trump announced national security adviser H.R. McMaster would be replaced by former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton.
“This is why officials are so hesitant to speak for Trump. He says one thing, then does the opposite,” CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins tweeted last week, after Trump claimed he was happy with his national security adviser H.R. McMaster but then days later revealed McMaster would be replaced.
“So true. It’s absurd. Which is why people are banging down the doors to be his comms director,” George Conway tweeted in response.
Kellyanne Conway has been floated as a possible replacement for Hicks, possibly on an interim basis.
Several other tweets were also removed from George Conway’s account, but he has not yet deleted a tweet from Wednesday responding to a report that said a top lawyer for Trump entertained the idea of pardons for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. “This is flabbergasting,” he tweeted.
George Conway said he had “nothing to add” and had “no reason” to delete the tweets when contacted by CNN.
