going to happen? i mean, look, president trumpt and trump i werei were very supf elon musk buying this company and i think we ve been surprised that elon has been willing to put all of thisand t . and i think the new republican congress should actually subpoena a requesto thy from twitter, this information t so that they can go through it . it s been great that matt taibbi and others have gone through it and they re putting out these report s. iceb but also, this is only the tipgt of the iceberg. we re only looking at twitter. med twitter is a small piece of the pie. metat out which is, which is fak and instagram. they re the big boyon on the block. here, sean. they ve been shadow banking. they ve been doing nasty things. trumthey spent remember, they spent after donald trumpp s uses facebook successfully fay r to get elected in 2016, did it the right way before they were shadow banking. then they turn around,ound and they start to shadow business. they put pressure on these tech compa
from one hundred twenty thousand tweets a day, downweet to eight hundred read tweets a day, basically suffocating our entire twitter account in hl the highly consequential year ofy 2020. r item remains a mystery. i can assume and speculate that i think they were evenwe more powerful actors behind this, thatrful a gave twitter or pushed twitter and said, hey, silence that charlieaid, guy. yeah, to that point, charlie,, elon musk confirmed today thatis some political candidates in the u.s. and elsewhere werewhile themselves subject to shadow banking while they were running for office. now, we don t have detailsnninge which candidates there were, the i think we can make a guess here. pretty informed guess of whichtr side of the aisle they weree on . correct. onyeah. i mean, yes, we know thater t twitter basically acteedd as ado democrat super pac, bucrt we rew looking at here and it s important to reiterate the context is an unprecedented twenty firstiterate century technological interf
this wasn t happening. do you think hs e didn t know? i don t see how you can run a a company and not know. i think he was icompann on somee meetingsetings and he may try to pass the language saying, oh, shadow banking, isn t this vef stuff that we it s all the same it all the same effectm putting conservatives down below or eliminating their presence entirely on twitter so they couldn t get traction and their ideasatim couldn t get traction, especially going into elections. and that is wrong. see,tter i would argue that hee interested in a lot of otherstid things and he had terrible middle managers. mi they were all leftddle managerss and they were like and they were lying to him. but you might be right. in agreed. thing i think you re rights . i think both things can be right. i just think. think yes, no, i think i can be right . you caann be wrong. after all i did for you atid the beginning of this show, you did a lot. i di d. you did a lot. boy, if you only knew what hee did for me
saying, quote, very well done on speed. it s astonishing in its totality, tucker, we are continuing to cover the incoming tweets. oh, completely amazing. trace gallagher, thank you. a little later in the hour, another remarkable story. so you just have heard that twitter was putting its thumb on the scale in the last presidential election in 2020. god knows what they were doing just two weeks ago and they were doing it at the urging. of government agencies and the other party. what s interesting is that the former ceo of jack dorsey was asked about this, asked about shadow banking under oath . and it s interesting at this point to go back and see what he said. that s next. i don t own a single stock or bond. i know mr. armstrong. i know i m called middle class joe lunchpail jr., middle class . the truth of his lifestyle