November 03, 2017 12:50 PM UTC

Rogue Staffer Alert! Rogue Staffer Alert!

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• by: Colorado Pols

Regular readers of Colorado Pols know that we are always amused when a politician blames an error of some kind on a “rogue staffer.” So, imagine our delight when we saw this news about Donald Trump’s Twitter feed going down for 11 minutes on Thursday.

As CNN’s Chris Cillizza explains:

Twitter confirmed that the outage had been caused by a rogue employee.

“Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee’s last day,” read a tweet from Twitter’s government handle. “We are conducting a full internal review.”

Trump responded to the outage Friday in the most Trumpian fashion. “My Twitter account was taken down for 11 minutes by a rogue employee,” he tweeted Friday morning. “I guess the word must finally be getting out-and having an impact.”

Damn you, Rogue Staffer!