Sunlight Foundation tool shines a light on Trump’s deleted tweets

It seems like some people still don’t get that what shows up on the internet usually stays on the internet.
Politicians are often guilty of this through Twitter, making sure to quickly delete an unintentional (or just downright dumb) tweet. Presidential candidate Donald Trump deletes a bunch of tweets, even though the ones he doesn’t delete are also pretty dumb.

Lyin' Ted Cruz just used a picture of Melania from a G.Q. shoot in his ad. Be careful, Lyin' Ted, or I will spill the beans on your wife!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2016

This information (the deleted tweets part, at least) comes from D.C.-based open gov nonprofit Sunlight Foundation and its Politwoops tool, which keeps an archive of politicians’ deleted tweets. Sunlight Foundation staff writer Libby Watson wrote up a report earlier today looking at the last few weeks of Trump’s deleted tweets and she found an “interesting pattern.”
Apparently, most of the tweets Trump deleted since the beginning of May, nine to be exact, have been about his media appearances. On June 5, Trump tweeted and deleted 12 hours later about his interview with Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro. The next day he did the same thing for a tweet about an appearance on Fox & Friends.
His tweet about Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ appearance on Fox News was deleted seven minutes after his segment finished, which included Gonzales’ criticism of Trump’s racist comments about Judge Gonzalo Curiel.
Watson reached out to a campaign spokesperson to no avail, but she says “it’s worth noting that a candidate who generally seems to be unembarrassed by whatever he tweets will consistently delete promotions of his and his surrogates’ media appearances.”