both reported that the changes were made deliberately by a "disgruntled employee." The pages were wiped and updated to state that Pence's term will end on January 11th at 7:44 p.m. while Trump's will end five minutes later at 7:49 p.m. Screenshot via US State DepartmentScreenshot via US State Department
By 3:50 p.m. ET, both Trump and Pence's biography pages returned 404 errors with the message: "We're sorry, this site is currently experiencing technical difficulties. Please try again in a few moments." Some Twitter users speculated that the State Department could be announcing that both Trump and Pence were resigning from office, or that their site could have been hacked. A diplomat familiar, that the State Department's system is a "closed system" and "nearly impossible to hack."
Buzzfeed also reported that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo "ordered an internal investigation into the matter, beginning with interns and employees leaving Foggy Bottom this week and next ahead of the transition to the Biden administration." Trump and Pence are set to leave their respective offices at noon on January 20 when President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated.
GurkoPamela Be pro-active 🤙🤙
newsaspect Well he’s just following time honored Republican terrorist practice of alternative facts.
Go’s I hate looking at that fat SOB, I mean pompeo!!
A 'patriotic' staffer.
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Pompeo is upset about that. How about the President of the US inciting an attack on his own citizens? Destroying the democratic process?
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