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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2021 19:33:34 GMT
President Donald Trump doubled down on Tuesday on the incendiary rhetoric that incited the Capitol riot, warning darkly that it was dangerous to the United States for him to be impeached for his conduct. Trump also claimed that his inflammatory comments at a rally shortly before the invasion of the halls of Congress by thousands of his supporters on Wednesday were not harmful. “People thought what I said was totally appropriate,” Trump told reporters when he was asked what his personal responsibility was for the violence. The riot came after he and his family members urged supporters at a rally to fight with him to reverse Joe Biden’s Electoral College win. In his comments before departing for Texas on Tuesday, Trump again used the type of language that critics say fueled the mob, calling the planned impeachment by the Democratic-led House “really a continuation of the greatest  hunt in politics.” “It’s ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous,” Trump said in his first comments to the media since the riot, which killed a Capitol police officer and left at least four other people dead. |
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2021 4:08:25 GMT
 Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said banning US President Donald Trump was the right thing to do. However, he expressed sadness at what he described as the "extraordinary and untenable circumstances" surrounding Mr Trump's permanent suspension. He also said the ban was in part a failure of Twitter's, which hadn't done enough to foster "healthy conversation" across its platforms. Twitter has been praised and criticised for freezing Mr Trump's account. German leader Angela Merkel and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador - neither an ally of the outgoing US president - spoke out against the tech titan's move. In a long Twitter thread, Twitter's chief said he did not celebrate or feel pride in the ban - which came after the Capitol riot last week. |
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Post by Admin on Feb 2, 2021 19:31:11 GMT
White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Monday that President Biden and his administration don’t spend a lot of time thinking about former President Trump and they don’t “miss” him on Twitter.
Speaking at the press briefing, Psaki was asked if Trump’s absence from the social media platforms made Biden’s life easier because the former president is not able to rile up GOP lawmakers to oppose the new administration’s initiatives, such as a COVID-19 relief package that is in limbo.
“This may be hard to believe, we don’t spend a lot of time talking about or thinking about President Trump here – former President Trump, to be very clear,” Psaki said. “That’s a question that is probably more appropriate for Republican members who are looking for ways to support a bipartisan package, and whether that gives them space. But I can’t say we miss him on Twitter.”
Biden will meet with Republican senators pushing a scaled-back coronavirus relief package Monday afternoon, as the administration considers whether it should try and push through its much larger package without GOP support.
Trump has been conspicuously quiet amid Biden’s first big policy fight in Washington.
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Post by Admin on Mar 24, 2021 1:11:37 GMT
Former US president Donald Trump will soon be breaking his silence on social media. An adviser said Mr Trump is planning to launch his own media platform and the site could be "live" within months. The former president had been banned from Twitter and Facebook for inciting violence. Former President Donald Trump teased the launch of his own social media platform in a new interview, but did not provide a timeline or offer any further details regarding the potential business venture. “I’m doing things having to do with putting our own platform out there that you’ll be hearing about soon,” Trump told Fox News contributor Lisa Boothe in the debut episode of her “The Truth” podcast, which was released Monday.  Trump senior adviser Jason Miller also previewed plans for the new platform over the weekend, telling Fox News that the former president would be returning to social media “in probably about two or three months.” “This is something that I think will be the hottest ticket in social media,” Miller said Sunday. “It’s going to completely redefine the game, and everybody is going to be waiting and watching to see what exactly President Trump does.” After being banned from Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms in January following the Capitol insurrection, Trump has taken to releasing statements through his post-presidency office and political action committee in recent months. |
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Post by Admin on Apr 6, 2021 6:35:14 GMT
 A lawsuit over whether or not former president Donald Trump could block individuals from seeing content published on his @realdonaldtrump Twitter account has been dismissed by the US supreme court. Heeding the rulings of the court of appeals for the second circuit, the supreme court concluded that the end of Trump’s presidency made moot the case of whether or not he should be allowed to restrict visibility of his tweets. The second circuit upheld ruling states that blocking individual respondents on the basis of their viewpoints violates the US constitution’s first amendment. The president’s account amounts to a public forum of sorts, said the second circuit, and because it often concerns official matters of national interest, and publishes contributions from White House staff members, the former president was not allowed to retaliate by blocking the users’ Twitter accounts. The US justice department made a request for the supreme court to dismiss the case as moot on the night before Joe Biden was inaugurated in January. Government lawyers argued for the reversal by contending that the president’s decision to block responses from individual Twitter accounts was allowed by any Twitter user, and was a personal choice. The request also asked Scotus to vacate the rulings of lower courts. Former president Trump’s account was permanently banned by Twitter following the events of 6 January 2021, when a mob of angry rioters stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to block Congress from certifying Biden’s election victory. Justice Clarence Thomas agreed with the court’s decision to make the case moot, although he expressed concern that “applying old doctrines to new digital platforms is rarely straightforward”, signaling that this was a problem he believes deserves further consideration. |
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hunt in politics.”