President Trump's Twitter Suspension Wasn't Funny. It Was Scary

Nov 04, 2017, 12:01 AM

A rogue customer service representative shut down President Trump's Twitter account on their last day of work, an 11-minute outage that prompted the President's critics to celebrate online.

But while it was mostly harmless, the brief suspension of the most-followed world leader on Twitter raises serious questions. In fact, Trump's critics should be the most concerned about how it happened, since they're more likely to be worried about Russian attempts to meddle in U.S. politics.