Trump is to take on after ban Planning Twitter from site
DONALD TRUMP says he wants to create a rival to Twitter after he was banned from the site following the riots in Washington DC.
The President was stripped of his favourite means of communication after the social media giant said on Friday it has “permanently suspended” his account “due to the risk of further incitement of violence”. Facebook has also suspended him.
Trump hit back yesterday in a tweet, not from his suspended @realdonaldtrump account but from the US President’s official @Potus account, saying he will “look at the possibilities of building our own platform in the future.”
The outgoing President, who has been deserted by a string of top aides and even a cabinet member who resigned in the wake of last week’s riots, has also been linked to the possible launch of a new Right-wing TV network.
There are fears his supporters are planning further violent protests and to attack President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration ceremony in 10 days, security experts warned last night.
Jonathan Greenblatt, of America’s Anti-defamation League which tracks a and monitors hate group groups, said he did not thin think last week’s mayhe hem would be the e end of the matter, adding: “We fully expect that this violence could actually get worse.”
Following last week’s shameful storming of the Capitol building, in which five people, including a police officer, died, he added: “We are seeing chatter from far-right supremacists, they feel emboldened.”
John Scott-railton, at The Citizen Lab – a group at the University of Toronto that monitors cybersecurity – said he is “terribly concerned” about Biden’s inauguration in the
US capital on January 20. He said: “While the broader public was aghast at what happened, in certain corners of the Right-wing, it is viewed as a success.”
One post on a radical site the day after the siege chillingly declared: “We must not let the communists win – even if we have to burn DC to the ground.”
Democrats are set to begin a formal move to impeach Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the President was “unhinged” and “could not be more dangerous”. They plan to present a single impeachment article charging him with “incitement of insurrection”.
Democrats say they will back down if Trump resigns or is removed by an Amendment of the US Constitution.
Yesterday Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell told Republicans the earliest a trial would begin is January 20 – the day President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated. But a
Washington insider said the plan was to ensure Trump could never run again for the White House.
They said: “Since losing, his sole focus has been raising enough money to run again in 2024. Many can handle him staying until next week, but they are hell-bent on ensuring he could never be Presiden President again.” Qu Questions are still bei being asked about how th the rioters got into t the Capitol. Two days before analysis by security firm G4S warned of violent protests by militia groups.
But this and otusc other chief warnings of Capitol went unheeded and Steven Sund, the Police, quit the morning after his team failed to handle the rioters.
Yesterday one prominent protester, the horned “shaman” Jake Angeli, 32, was arrested and charged with violent and disorderly conduct.