TWIT’S NOT OVER YET
Trump vows to set up his own social media site after being banned for life
Christopher Bucktin Furious Donald Trump has vowed to set up his own rival to Twitter after being banned from the website for life.
The US president’s threat came as Democrats pushed ahead with plans to begin his impeachment process tomorrow over his role in last week’s deadly Washington DC riots.
Whi le some Republicans begged the opposition not to press forward with the attempts to remove Trump from the White House, one of his senators threatened to quit the party unless he resigned.
Yesterday more details of Wednesday’s deadly violence emerged when it was claimed that at least three Trump supporters spoke about hanging vice-president Mike Pence from a tree as a “traitor”.
On Friday, Trump’s Twitter account – with 88mi l l ion followers – was banned indefinitely due to “severe violations of our civic integrity policy.”
Hundreds of his supporters s t orme d t he Capitol in Wa s h i n g t o n DC as the US Congress tried to cer t i f y Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election, as he prepares for his inauguration as 46th president of the USA on January 20.
Five people were killed during the invasion – four civilians and a police officer.
Twitter said: “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.
“In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter rules would potentially result in this very course of action.”
Twitter’s decision followed two tweets by Trump on Friday afternoon that would end up being his last. The posts violated the company’s policy against the glorification of violence, Twitter said.
One of the posts read: “To all of those who have asked, I will nonot be going to the i nnaugurat ion on JanJanuary 20.” Twitter said the tweet could be viewed as a fur ther statestatement that the elect ion was not legilegitimate.
TTrump has beebeen accused of using the site to encourage theth storming of the Capitol. Following his ban, Trump spent Friday night and yesterday trying to address his supporters through other people’s accounts, also using the official President of the United States Twitter account.
But as quickly as the tweets were posted, they were removed by the social media giant.
Now Trump has vowed to launch his own site to rival Twitter. He urged his MAGA supporters to “stay tuned” as he claimed the website is working with the “radical left and Dems” to silence him and his supporters.
He wrote: “Tonight Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the radical left in removing my account from their platform to silence me – and you, the 75,000,000 great patriots who voted for me.”
Trump then claimed he has “been negotiating with various other sites” before promising a “big announcement soon”. He vowed: “We will not be silenced!”
Twitter was not the only firm to take action. Google banned the pro-Trump Parler social networking service from its app store, citing posts inciting violence and demanding “robust” content moderation.
And ex-presidential adviser Steve Bannon’s podcast was removed from YouTube just hours af ter Rudy Giul iani appeared on the show blaming the MAGAAGA mob riot on the Democratsrats for “censoring and suppressing”ssing” TrumpsupportersTrumpsupporters.
Meanwhile, Democrat House leader Nancy Pelosi said she’d prefer Trump to resign or Pence and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from power. She made it clear that if it does not happen, impeachment is another option.
After a string of White House Cabinet resignations last week out of disgust over Trump, the f irst Republican senator has broken ranks to demand he steps down.
Li sa Murkowsk i , who represents Alaska, said she is considering leaving the party, in a move which would give the
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Since last week’s violence, the FBI and police have arrested more than 80 of those involved.
Yesterday, photographer Jim Bourg told how he heard Trump fans speak about executing Pence as they stormed the Capitol and tried to hunt him down.
On Wednesday, pictures from DC revealed a noose was erected on a wooden frame on the west front of the Capitol by the mob.
Pence angered Trump after pushing back against the president’s incorrect claim that he could put a stop to the certification of Biden’s victory in the Electoral College.