Trump news: Trump returns to Twitter and formally demands to reinstate Facebook

Although Donald Trump gained access to his Twitter account on Nov. 19 following Elon Musk’s takeover of the company and the decision to reverse the ban imposed on the former president following the Capitol riot, he has to tweet.

That could all change according to an NBC News report, which claims its 2024 campaign consultants are working on ideas for its first tweet.

Furthermore, the campaign also approached Facebook parent Meta to unblock his account on that platform, which was also suspended two years ago.

“We believe that the banning of President Trump’s Facebook account has dramatically distorted and inhibited public discourse,” the Trump campaign wrote in its letter to Meta on Tuesday, according to a copy reviewed by NBC News.

The campaign would like a meeting to discuss reinstatement. Meta said it would announce a decision in the coming weeks.

Since being banned from major social media platforms, Trump has founded his own — Truth Social — but doesn’t like the audience and pulpit intimidation he’s had on other sites. Although he has 4.8 million followers on Truth Social, he had 88 million on Twitter and 34 million on Facebook.

As the 2024 race for the White House approaches, the former president is set to again use some of the biggest and most influential social media platforms after being kicked out of them following the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to NBC. News.

Conservative attorney George Conway reminded Donald Trump that all of his posts – whether they be on Truth Social or perhaps soon on another platform – could come back to haunt him in a court of law.

Conway, a longtime foe of Trump, reminded the former president of the most basic of rights – the right to remain silent if someone is suspected of a crime, as established by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

People are protected from being compelled to give evidence that might incriminate them. Trump offers written testimony on social media in written form, often multiple times a day.

“You have the right to remain silent, you know. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law,” Mr. Conway on Truth Social in response to the former president’s latest attempt to explain the presence of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

“Do you understand these rights @realDonaldTrump?”

Another day, another protest of innocence by former President Donald Trump about the treasure trove of classified documents found in Mar-a-Lago.

Trump argues that he kept the cheap folders marked “classified” or “confidential” as a “nice” souvenir before accusing the “Gestapo” – the FBI – of taking these empty folders and counting them as classified documents.

Furthermore, the former president launched the conspiracy theory that “Trump Hating Marxist Thugs” would “plant documents while they are in possession of the material”.

He ended with a challenge: “I DID NOTHING WRONG. JOE DID!

Set to hit the country’s legal borrowing limit on Thursday, the government is resorting to “extraordinary measures” to avoid default.

But — take a deep breath — the phrase technically refers to a bunch of accounting solutions. Yes, accounting.

Another day, another headline by George Santos. Several of them, in fact.

Eric Garcia explains why Kevin McCarthy — not to mention the rest of the GOP leadership — probably can’t afford to let Mr. Santos for one simple reason.

Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen said he met for two and a half hours on Tuesday with Manhattan prosecutors, who have resumed a years-old investigation into payments made to a porn star to keep her quiet about a alleged extramarital encounter.

Cohen said he was “ordered not to disclose” any of the people present at the meeting or discuss the prosecutors’ area of ​​interest in detail.

Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy repeated his intention to keep Democratic Representatives Eric Swalwell, Adam Schiff and Ilhan Omar off the House intelligence committee. The move is widely seen as revenge for Democrats who removed Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar. It is also, however, a reiteration of the republican commitment to government by trolling.

In a day full of Truth Social posts, former President Donald Trump wonders:

Why aren’t they asking President Obama what’s going on with his administration? Crooked Hillary took, illegally deleted, and acid-washed 33,000 emails AFTER she received a subpoena for those emails from the US Congress, and who knows how many classified documents Joe took, especially pertaining to Ukraine and China. Perhaps the Trump-hating special “prosecutor” Jack Smith who is doing the dirty work for his Democratic Marxist friends should do the right thing for our country!

He adds in a follow-up post:

Our country has become the Research Capital of the World. In fact, that’s all we do and it’s only good for our many enemies. They couldn’t be happier as they brilliantly plan our demise!!!

Donald Trump insisted Wednesday in posts on Truth Social that many of the documents marked “classified” found at Mar-a-Lago – out of more than 300 in total – were actually empty folders marked “classified” that he deemed ” cool”. ” gifts.

Trump reiterated his baseless accusation, claiming that federal law enforcement officials would plant more classified documents among the seized materials to further incriminate him.

john bowden has the details.