White House restores financial disclosure page after CBS News inquiry
Summary
The White House financial disclosure webpage went offline on Nov. 6 and returned after CBS News asked the press office about its removal. The White House did not explain why the page went down or came back; when restored, it listed a newly added report on President Donald Trump’s stock trades.Key Facts
- The disclosure page was online at 3:01 p.m. Eastern and returned a 404 error at 3:31 p.m.
- CBS News emailed the White House press office at 4:20 p.m. to ask whether the page had been intentionally removed or was experiencing a technical problem.
- The page returned sometime between 4:31 p.m. and 5:01 p.m.; its source code showed a 5 p.m. Eastern publish time.
- The documents themselves remained online while the webpage hub was unavailable.
- The restored page listed a report of Trump’s stock trades, which he signed on Sept. 17 and which had been posted on the Office of Government Ethics website on Oct. 8.
- The White House server data showed the report was uploaded at 3:14 p.m. on Nov. 6.
- The page includes disclosure records for the president, vice president and more than 100 White House staffers.
- In September, CBS News found that more than 110 of about 180 officials listed on the White House page were not in the Office of Government Ethics’ online records.
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