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> why Twitter does not delete presidential twits - they don't want to break the law.

The law requires that the President retain and preserve records. [0]. It does not require anything of third parties like Twitter.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/44/2203

I don't see it. Twitter could retain an archive of those tweets, while simultaneously not publishing those tweets on their website (''deleting'' them.)

It shouldn't be an issue because he's using his personal account and not tweeting from @potus.

Because the President conducted official business from his personal account (firing officials, announcing new executive orders, etc. etc.), that makes his personal account part of the official record.

Courts have already ruled that realDonaldTrump is an official account (he conducts government business on it) in a case forbidding Trump from blocking critics on his account.