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PERMANENTLY CLOSED: Twitter account @RealDonaldTrump Photo: Screenshot of Twitter, via Reuters Photo: Twitter screenshot via Reuters
The decline in Trump’s account comes after the assault on the United States Congress building. In its justification, the company says it feared the president’s messages could incite “more violence.”
Twitter decided earlier this week to shut down the president’s account for 12 hours, warning that further violations of the policy could lead to permanent account closure.
Friday night they took the threats seriously.
– We made it clear that further violations of Twitter guidelines would potentially result in this, the company writes in a statement, referring to two specific messages from the president after his account was reopened on Thursday.
These were:
- “The 75,000,000 wonderful American patriots who voted for me, America FIRST, and MAKE America WONDERFUL AGAIN, will have a GREAT VOICE in the future. They will not be treated disrespectfully or wronged in any way. “.
- “To all of you who have asked, I will not be attending the opening on January 20.”
These messages should be read in light of the current tense situation in the United States and the violent assault on the Congress building, Twitter believes.
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– After reviewing the language of these messages against our guidelines to glorify violence, we have decided that these Twitter messages violate our guidelines to glorify violence, and that the user @RealDonaldTrump is immediately banned from the service permanently.
Early Friday, Twitter also decided to delete the accounts of former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell and Trump supporter Michael Flynn.
Twitter’s decision to shut down Trump’s account has been met with strong criticism from several Republicans.
– Twitter may want to exclude me from this, but I will accept that fate: its decision to ban President Trump is a huge mistake. The ayatollah can tweet, but not Trump, writes Republican Senator Lindsey Graham on Twitter.
– It says a lot about the people who control Twitter, he adds.
Graham, who represents South Carolina in the Senate, came in earlier this week with criticism of Trump’s behavior after the election, following the storming of the Congress building in Washington DC on Wednesday.
White House aide Jason Miller calls Twitter’s exclusion “disgusting,” while the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr. calls it “absolute insanity.”
“Silencing the voices of the people, not least of the president, is what is happening in China, not in our country,” former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley wrote on Twitter.
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