Donald Trump retweet of post naming alleged whistle-blower who sparked impeachment back on Twitter

On Friday night Trump shared a Twitter post from @surfermom77 with his 68 million followers naming the alleged whistle-blower

It disappeared by Saturday morning, but was restored later that day, apparently after a Twitter glitch

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US President Donald Trump later deleted the tweet. Photo: TNS

Published: 5:37am, 29 Dec 2019Updated: 11:06pm, 29 Dec 2019

US President Donald Trump retweeted a post naming the alleged whistle-blower who filed the complaint that became the catalyst for the congressional inquiry that resulted in his impeachment by the House of Representatives.

On Friday night, Trump shared a Twitter post from @surfermom77, who describes herself as “100% Trump supporter,” with his 68 million followers. That tweet prominently named the alleged whistle-blower and suggested that he had committed perjury.

By Saturday morning, Trump’s retweet had been removed. But late on Saturday it was restored and was again visible on Twitter on Sunday. The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

CNN reported that the temporary removal followed a Twitter glitch that affected certain accounts, and was not deliberate action to delete the tweet by Trump or someone with access to his Twitter account. “Due to an outage with one of our systems, tweets on account profiles were visible to some, but not others,” the social media site posted on its @TwitterSupport account.