With President Donald Trump exiled from social media and laying low for the reason that Capitol Hill riot, the State Division’s official web site puzzlingly declared that Trump’s time period in workplace got here to an finish on January 11.
A biography web page apparently created on Monday on the State Division’s official web site, has a solitary line of textual content that reads “Donald J. Trump’s time period ended on 2021-01-11 19:48:39.” The web page was possible created round 3pm native time, in keeping with Archive.org, whereas a Google cache of the web page reveals that it was edited in December, with the message then placing Trump’s time period ending on the 17th of that month.
An analogous change was made to Vice President Mike Pence’s biography.
Per the State Division web site, "Donald Trump's time period ended on 2021-01-11 19:40:41."
Clearly, ready on extra data… pic.twitter.com/1BpIrc870V
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) January 11, 2021
The which means of the textual content is unclear, but it surely comes at a time of uncertainty for Trump, practically per week after his supporters barged into the US Capitol after he inspired them to protest exterior the constructing. Banned from each main social media platform, castigated within the media, going through impeachment by Democrats and dropping Republican allies, Trump has suffered pushback on all sides after the riot left 5 folks lifeless, together with one unarmed protester shot by police and one police officer allegedly clubbed with a fireplace extinguisher by a rioter.
Commenters and pundits on-line speculated whether or not the State Division’s website had been “hacked,” or whether or not a staffer within the division was aware of one thing the general public wasn’t.
have been they hacked?https://t.co/3pnV2Nfw09 pic.twitter.com/QPxQCOG88S
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) January 11, 2021
No matter your opinion on Trump, the State Division doesn’t have the ability to resolve who the president is. Nevertheless, the State Division does have many years of expertise orchestrating coups in different nations. Is that what's occurring right here? https://t.co/OpN74sqwE9
— Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) January 11, 2021
What is occurring? Did he resign? Is the State Division letting us know they’re ousting him?? pic.twitter.com/HdeP5pNdUR
— 𝕸𝖔𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖗 𝕸𝖊𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖐 🦂 (@merrickdeville) January 11, 2021
BuzzFeed Information claimed that the textual content was the work of a “disgruntled staffer,” although a supply instructed the Washington Examiner that the division was nonetheless “engaged on determining what occurred.”
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