After more than two years of absence on social networks, Donald Trump reused your account Facebook and YouTubewho had been suspended in early 2021 after his followers carried out an assault on the Capitol.
His reappearance on the platforms was with a message true to his style that alluded to ulterior motives for the 2024 election in which he will run.
It’s that he did it by reusing a fragment of the speech he made when he was elected president of the United States in 2016.
“I’m back!”, The former US president wrote on Facebook who left office amid controversy when he was defeated at the polls by the current head of state Joe Biden.
In the 12-second video posted, Trump can be heard saying, “I’m sorry I kept you waiting, it was a complicated matter.”
Trump had been excluded from social media on January 7, 2021, when he was still in power, accused of “encouraging” his followers during the attack on the Capitol. It was an unprecedented decision that was also imitated by most of the major social networks at the time, including Twitter.
More than two years later, American tech company Meta, which owns the Facebook and Instagram companies, announced in January that it would restore former President Donald Trump’s accounts, though it didn’t provide information on when that would be.
Meanwhile, Google-owned YouTube had announced this Friday that it had lifted the suspension of the former president’s account, which was decided on January 13, 2021 with the same argument posting content inciting riots.
The 76-year-old mogul has since been unable to post any content and his 2.6 million followers have been unable to comment on old videos due to the measure.
Trump’s Twitter account, with 87 million followers, was also blocked after the riots. The former president then opened the Truth Social platform, where he is followed by less than five million people.
On November 19, 2022, four days after declaring his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election, Trump had been readmitted to that social network, but has not yet posted messages on his account.
After Meta announced it would end Trump’s suspension, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has filed more than 400 lawsuits against Trump, applauded the decision.
Donald Trump and his candidacy: he presents himself as the “savior” against the “lunatics” of the Republican Party
On March 5, former head of the White House Donald Trump proclaimed himself the only one capable of saving the United States from the Democratic “warmongers” and the “madmen” of the Republican Party, in an ultra-conservative rostrum in which the former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, with whom he exchanged warm compliments.
To cheers and cheers, the two former presidents delivered their speeches at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), in a city near Washington.
As a candidate for the Republican nomination for the 2024 election, Trump left no puppets with his head.
He estimated that the United States is on its knees and Americans must wage “an epic fight to save” the “country from people who hate it and want to destroy it completely.”
Source: Clarin
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