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- An ex-Twitter employee said Trump's White House asked the company to take down a tweet.
- The expletive-filled tweet, written by Chrissy Teigen, insulted Trump.
- "They wanted it to come down because it was a derogatory statement," the ex-official said.
President Donald Trump's White House asked Twitter to take down a 2019 tweet posted by celebrity Chrissy Teigen that insulted him, a former employee at the social media company testified before a congressional committee on Wednesday.