TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House ‘We the People’ petition site — where citizens lobbied for issues such as LGBT rights and the ‘construction of a Death Star’ — was temporarily shut down Monday [12-18-17].
The Trump administration said the platform, created during the Obama administration, will return in late January as a new site.
A White House official says the move will save taxpayers $1.3 million annually.
The site launched in 2011 and initially was named ‘We the People.’
Some of the petitions caught on as viral stunts while others addressed more serious concerns…
The official from the Trump administration said all existing petitions and responses will be restored next year.
Petitions that reach the required 100,000 signatures will begin receiving responses.
Among the recent unanswered petitions that have met the threshold are calls on President Donald Trump to release his tax returns and to place his assets in a blind trust.”
-Joe Tacopino, “White House ‘temporarily’ shuts down petition site,” The New York Post, Dec. 18, 2017 7:10pm