Former President Donald Trump has asked a federal judge in Florida to force Twitter to hand back his account that was suspended after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Lawyers for Trump filed for an injunction on Friday against the social media giant and CEO Jack Dorsey over what it said amounted to a violation of the former president’s First Amendment protections.
“Defendant exercises a degree of power and control over political discourse in this country that is immeasurable, historically unprecedented, and profoundly dangerous to open democratic debate,” reads the filing.
The filing argues that Democrats coerced Twitter into removing Trump from the platform that serves as important means of transmitting news and information. It pointed to past court rulings that called the Internet “the modern public square.”
The legal action is the latest in the lawsuit that was initiated by Trump in July against social media companies that had removed him from their platforms. The complaint pointed to past remarks by prominent congressional Democrats calling for Trump to be suspended from Twitter for making misleading and inflammatory remarks.
Twitter permanently suspended Trump’s account days after the deadly insurrection in the U.S. Capitol citing “the risk of further incitement of violence.” Trump has also been banned from Facebook.
The most recent legal filing pointed to more recent statements by President Joe Biden and other administration officials criticizing social media for spreading COVID-19 misinformation. The filing argued that Twitter was working with the White House to convert its platform into a “Ministry of Truth,” a reference to George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
The filing also said that Twitter has selectively enforced its standards, pointing out that the Taliban’s account is still active on the platform.
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Donald Trump and others should sew Twitter and the other media giants for violating their Constitution rights.
About $5.4 Trillion sounds like a good amount to be awarded for damages,
this is the amount that their treasonous manipulations of the truth has cost our U.S.A.
by the traitorous socialist Democrat Party’s puppet president Biden.
EVEN IF they found a judge willing to allow said suit, AND the jury awarded trump the whole amount, WHAT MAKES You think, he’d ever see a SINGLE DIME of that???
I don’t think he cares about money he just wants his Twitter account back.
I have to admit, I’ve enjoyed the lack of Trump’s Twitter rants; not my favorite part of his presidency. However, given the unequal treatment that Twitter gives its users, I think he has every right to go after them and hope he prevails. Interesting that the dems handling Biden probably won’t let him anywhere near Twitter! Can you imagine the Biden “blather” ?!
I would much rather Trump rant on twitter, than LET TWITTER SHANK EVERYONE they dislike over..