Emily Jacobs
Twitter has suspended the account for former President Donald Trump’s newly launched communications platform that he uses to post his statements.
The 45th commander-in-chief
revealed his new website, “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” on Tuesday, which allows
him to provide his thoughts in Twitter-style posts that can then be shared on
social media sites he has been banned from.
The site is meant to serve as
“a place to speak freely and safely,” a statement from Team Trump argued. The
team is working on developing the site further to give him the ability to
communicate directly with his followers.
Trump’s moves to circumvent
the social media blockades did not appear to work out — at least with regard to
Twitter.
By Wednesday evening, the
account, @DJTDesk,
had been suspended.
Twitter did not immediately
respond to The Post’s request for comment.
Reps for the former president
did not immediately respond either.
The platform permanently
banned the then-president following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
At the time, Twitter
defended its
suspension as “due to the risk of further incitement
of violence.”
The company’s continued
position that it will not consider allowing him back on its platform, even if
he were to return to public office, has rubbed many the wrong way, including
some of Trump’s political opponents.
A company rep said in March that the restriction would be lifted
once it was clear there was no longer an “elevated violence risk.”
Facebook, meanwhile, ordered an indefinite ban on the president.
Google-owned YouTube banned
Trump from posting videos after the riot, as well.
In the three months since
banning the then-president, Facebook deferred to their Oversight Board to make
a final call on letting Trump return to their platforms.
On Wednesday morning the Board
announced they would be upholding
the ban but said an indefinite suspension of Trump’s account was
inappropriate and the company has six months to lay out new penalties.
Trump slammed
the decision in a statement, which was unable to be shared on social
media, in which he said that the companies censoring him “must pay a political
price.”
“What Facebook, Twitter, and
Google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country. Free
Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the
Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out
anyway, bigger and stronger than ever before,” he said in an emailed statement.
“The People of our Country
will not stand for it! These corrupt social media companies must pay a
political price, and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate our
Electoral Process,” he said.
Emily Jacobs, The New York Post, May 6, 2021, 9h13
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