This nonsensical personal/official distinction is the same kind of fiction Trump and his enablers have engaged in for years now. He gets to say outrageous things, and then his enablers retroactively decide whether he was “joking,” or “serious,” or some other hybrid category where we’re supposed to take him seriously but not literally. Typos aren’t actually typos, they’re coded messages for true believers.
It’s the same phenomenon here: he uses his Twitter account to make policy announcements, attack political enemies, and promote his goals, but he wants all the benefits of using a “personal” account so he can’t actually be held accountable for what he says and held to the same standards any other President would be held to. It seems like a silly fight about stupid Twitter, but it’s insidious.
ETA:
Do you agree that it would raise 1A issues if the President held a rally in Times Square open to the public, and had the Secret Service kick out anyone holding a sign that was critical of his policies or had expressed opinions in the past that the President did not like, and allowed those with pro-Trump signs to remain?
