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Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2021 5:11:47 GMT
President Donald Trump has many prized possessions. But few seemed to inspire as much personal joy as his Twitter feed. Trump routinely boasted of the social media bullhorn he possessed. He credited it with launching his political trajectory. And he used it as a tool to lacerate his foes. On Friday night, he lost it. And, then, he lost his mind. The president is “ballistic,” a senior administration official said after Twitter permanently took down his account, citing the possibility that it would be used in the final 12 days of Trump’s presidency to incite violence. The official said Trump was “scrambling to figure out what his options are.” So too was much of the political universe, which has become bleary-eyed obsessive about Twitter these past four years as Trump used the medium to fire advisers, sink legislative initiatives, encourage social duress and, lastly, praise the scores of MAGA faithful, just days after hundreds of them violently ransacked the Capitol. In a statement issued by the White House, Trump said he’d been “negotiating with various other sites” while “we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future.” But aides did not reveal what plans were in the works. When Trump’s eldest son, Don Jr. offered up a URL to those hoping to keep tabs of his father’s whereabouts, it was a site that had been purchased in 2009 and, in recent years, a place where his books were sold. For those who did sign up, an email was sent, plugging his latest work: “Liberal Privilege”. “As you know, the election is coming up,” it read, of the contest that took place two months ago. For Trump, the Twitter ban was yet another inglorious passage to the final chapter of his presidency. Over the past two days, he’s been admonished by his own aides, chastised by Republicans, and threatened once more with impeachment.
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Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2021 7:07:00 GMT
President Donald Trump continued tweeting Friday evening using the government-owned @potus account, despite having his @realdonaldtrump account permanently suspended by Twitter earlier in the day. “As I have been saying for a long time, Twitter has gone further and further in banning free speech, and tonight, Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me,” Trump wrote in a series of tweets that are no longer visible on the social media service. The tweets were removed from the service almost immediately. It’s unclear what steps Twitter took in the handling of the @potus account. Earlier in the day, the company announced that it would permanently suspend Trump’s personal account “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Twitter specifically noted that Trump’s tweets earlier in the day could be interpreted as supporting rioters. The company also noted that plans for future armed protests had begun proliferating on and off of the social media service.
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Post by Admin on Jan 9, 2021 20:58:18 GMT
As authorities continue to search for others who stormed the Capitol, “Nightline” looks back on dozens of cases that invoked Trump by name in connection with violence, threats and assaults. Twitter on Jan. 8 banned President Trump from its site, a punishment for his role in inciting violence at the U.S. Capitol, robbing him of the megaphone he used to communicate directly with more than 88 million supporters and critics. Read more: wapo.st/35nSho4.
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Post by Admin on Jan 10, 2021 4:02:54 GMT
Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of President Donald Trump, on Saturday took to Twitter to rebuke his father's permanent ban from the platform. "The world is laughing at America & Mao, Lenin, & Stalin are smiling," Trump Jr. said in a tweet. "Big tech is able to censor the President? Free speech is dead & controlled by leftist overlords." His comments Saturday echo those he made Friday, in which he said freedom of speech "no longer exists in America. It died with big tech and what's left is only there for a chosen few." Twitter on Friday evening said the president, who during his administration used Twitter as his primary way to communicate with Americans, had been permanently banned from tweeting. The ban followed Wednesday's deadly insurrection at the US Capitol where supporters of the president stormed the building while lawmakers were meeting to discuss the certification of the Electoral College vote. Prior to the January 6 insurrection, Trump had encouraged his Twitter followers to come to Washington, DC, as part of the "Stop the Steal" movement, which baselessly alleges Trump's loss to President-elect Joe Biden was the result of widespread voter fraud. There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the election, and Trump and his allies weren't able to substantiate the claim during the months he refused to concede his loss. "After close review of recent Tweets from the @realdonaldtrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," the company said in a statement Friday night.
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Post by Admin on Jan 11, 2021 3:42:52 GMT
One of President Trump’s top golf courses is expected to lose a major event once he leaves office, according to a golf insider. The 2022 PGA Championship is scheduled to be hosted by Trump National Bedminster golf club in New Jersey. However, the PGA of America is expected to change venues once President Trump leaves office, according to a report. Golfweek’s Eamon Lynch explained what will happen in his latest column: “The odds that ’22′s PGA Championship will happen as scheduled in New Jersey are about as good as the chances of you or I winning it. Seth Waugh, the PGA of America’s CEO, was a banker and has an alert eye for high-risk exposure. He knows that Trumpism is likely to be an equally incendiary force in the ’22 midterm elections and that any affiliation is poisonous. Waugh will be forced to move the event and face down a small but vocal faction of his membership who remain true believers. Moving its major from Trump National has been debated internally at the PGA for more than two years, but executives have been reluctant to antagonize a famously vindictive man who controls the Internal Revenue Service. Such concerns melt away in 10 days, if not sooner,” he wrote.
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