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Related tweet: "Today Trump removed all open data (9GB) from the White House https://open.whitehouse.gov/browse but I grabbed it all Jan 20! Will distribute soon"

https://twitter.com/denormalize/status/831581871230193664

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If anyone wants to help out with these sorts of preservation projects https://www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ are good places to start.

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EDIT: Looks like Jason Scott is aware of the WH.gov dump and has offered to ingest at the Internet Archive: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/831585297003458560

Why did trump do this? What was in the data? Could this be an error?

It isn't an error. If you click into one of the individual data sources (links available on the home page), you see messages like this:

> This page is being updated. It will post records of White House visitors on an ongoing basis, once they become available.

> This page is being updated. It will post records of White House staff salaries as the data becomes available for the Trump Administration.

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I'd argue that Trump probably doesn't have a clue this even exist, someone else dictated it's archival/removal.

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