Trump turned off his cell phone for three hours after broadcasting a video with a supremacist slogan

Por Carol E. Lee and Kristen Welker – NBC News

President Donald Trump set off alarms at the White House on Sunday morning after retweeting a video of one of his supporters exclaiming the racist slogan “White power!”, According to two White House officials. to NBC News, sister network of Telemundo.

The video remained on the president’s Twitter account, which has more than 82 million followers, for more than three hours, because White House officials were unable to contact him to ask him to delete it, these sources added. The president was at his golf club in Virginia and left his cell phone disconnected, they explained.

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The president’s aides also unsuccessfully attempted to contact deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino to ask him to delete the tweet.

Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina joined the emergency call: He called the tweet “indefensible” and demanded that the president withdraw it during an interview on CNN.

Once officials were able to contact the president, he agreed to remove him.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and adviser to President Jared Kushner were among those who tried to contain the consequences. McEnany said Monday that Trump had seen the video before retweeting it, but did not hear the “White Power” scream.

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Officials said the president receives an avalanche of content from attendees and allies. One of these sources added that the incident on Sunday was a “Lesson for all of us in the White House to be more aware of what’s out there.”

In April, the president retweeted a post that included the hashtag “#FireFauci”, or “#DespidanAFauci”. When asked at the time if he had noticed the hashtag, which called for the removal of one of the top White House experts in the fight against the coronavirus, the president said: “Yes, I see everything.”

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