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On Tuesday, the permabanned former president launched what was either identified as a new communications platform (if you are Fox News) or a glorified blog (if you are an elder Millennial who remembers Xanga). The webpage, given the mouthful-of-a-name
From the Desk of Donald J.
Trump,
is advertised as being the new and improved home for the 74-year-old s errant thoughts, all of which are presented in his preferred san-serif font, Montserrat. But while internet denizens smirked at Trump s sad return,
From the Desk proves something more: Trump is a
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Print this article Then-President Donald Trump departs on travel to West Point, N.Y., from the South Lawn at the White House, December 12, 2020.
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Facebook’s “oversight board” has upheld the ban that the service imposed on President Trump in January of this year, while ordering the company to reconsider whether it should be made permanent. Facebook has six months to respond to the instructions. Evidently, having tried to hand responsibility for his toughest decisions over to a faceless panel, Mark Zuckerberg now finds himself back where he began.
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Every single part of this story is ridiculous. It is ridiculous that Facebook not only has an “oversight board,” but that it expects its users to consider it a meaningful source of due process, rather than as yet another way for the company to make up the rules as it goes along. It is ridiculous that, having concluded that Facebook’s initial decision lacked justificati
Blog Trump: ‘Radical Left Lunatics’ of Facebook, Twitter, Google ‘Afraid of the Truth, But the Truth Will Come Out, Anyway’ By Craig Bannister | May 5, 2021 | 1:08pm EDT
Fmr. Pres. Donald Trump
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In a statement released Wednesday after the Facebook Oversight Board ruled that the social media giant could continue its “lifetime” ban of his Facebook and (Facebook-owned) Instagram accounts, former President Donald Trump issued a statement, saying “These corrupt social media companies must pay a political price.”
“Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth, but the truth will come out anyway,” Trump promised in the statement released through his Save America leadership PAC, in which he warns of the threat of social media censorship to the nation’s electoral process: