DAY 103: Trump was directly involved in finding who tweeted the inaugural comparison photos

CBS published today that Donald Trump was "directly involved" in searching for the person who used the National Park Services Twitter account to retweet the side-by-side photos of his inaugural crowd and Barack Obama's inaugural crowd in 2009.

The retweet was deleted shortly after it was posted on January 20, 2017, and the Trump administration claimed the White House neither demanded the retweet to be deleted not the accounts of the Interior Department suspended.

Well, turns out Trump did try to find out who retweeted that. From the CBS article:

But emails released by the National Park Service in response to a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the new president was "concerned" about the retweet.

One of the emails explicitly states Trump directly asked about it:

"Obviously, this has become a very sensitive issue, especially since the President has gotten directly involved and contacted Acting Director Mike Reynolds concerned about one of the images that was retweeted," wrote Tim Cash, Chief of Digital Strategy at the National Park Service in a Jan. 21 email to Shaun Cavanaugh, the agency's Chief Information Security Officer.

That's not all. The Trump administration did trace the IP address of the retweet to San Bruno, California and "checked all possible NPS social media points of contacts in that area."

Supposedly because they were worried the account was "compromised."

Yeah right. THAT is why Trump directly got involved in it.