the “Rogue POTUS Staff” persona goes cross-platformBack in January 2017, when Donald Trump began his first U.S. presidential term, dozens of accounts purportedly belonging to rogue employees of various federal agencies sprung up on Twitter (now known as X). While some of these accounts (often collectively referred to as “AltGov”) appear to have had actual connections to the government, others were decidedly less legitimate. One prominent dubious account was “Rogue POTUS Staff” (@RoguePOTUSStaff), an alleged group of White House insiders allegedly leaking inside information to a Twitter audience that, at its peak, exceeded 800,000 followers. The information provided by the account frequently turned out to be wildly inaccurate, however, and some of the account operator’s behaviors were and are at odds with the notion that it is or ever was run by someone leaking information from inside the White House at great personal risk. The account went largely silent following the inauguration of Joe Biden in January 2021, but began posting again in 2025 following Trump’s return to office, on both the original X/Twitter account and on a Bluesky account created in 2024.the information provided by “Rogue POTUS Staff” has often been incorrectThroughout the first Trump administration, the @RoguePOTUSStaff account regularly tweeted alleged White House gossip and inside information on upcoming administration decisions. It didn’t take long for the account’s alleged “leaks” to start being proven drastically wrong, however. On the morning of February 13th, 2017, “Rogue POTUS Staff” authoritatively announced that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn was “not going…The farce awakens