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Rogue Twitter employee deactivates Trump’s account

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A departing company employee took President Donald Trump's Twitter account offline briefly.

The page went down for about 11 minutes. The company later posted a statement saying the president's “account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee.”

Two hours later, Twitter acknowledged the shut-down wasn't an accident. The account was taken offline “by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day," officials said. This morning, Trump blamed a “rogue employee."

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