Hundreds of angry supporters of President Trump stormed the US Congressional Capitol Hill in Washington this week during a joint sitting of both houses of Congress. At the meeting, Congress was to approve the victory of Republican President Trump’s Democratic rival Joe Biden in the November presidential election.
Four people were killed in the unrest, police had also arrested more than fifty demonstrators. Demands the immediate removal of President Trump
After temporary, now permanent ban In this context, the Twitter administration announced on Friday night, January 8, that both President Donald Trump’s account (RealDonaldTrump) and his team account (TeamTrump) were being permanently suspended due to the recent violence on Capitol Hill.
Earlier, Twitter temporarily suspended both accounts. An Iraqi court has issued an arrest warrant for Trump
A statement from Twitter said that the accounts of Donald Trump and his team have been permanently suspended due to fears that tweets from these accounts could lead to further unrest in the United States. A tweet from Twitter Safety said “In the wake of this week’s horrific incident, we made it clear on Wednesday that any further breach of Twitter’s rules could be possible. But this decision (permanent ban on the account) could have been made.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump on his personal Twitter account called the ban a violation of freedom of expression.
In a tweet from the US president’s official Twitter account (POTUS) on Friday night, President Trump accused Twitter of “trying to silence me.” Merkel is also responsible for the attack on the US Congress. The US president wrote in his tweet, “Twitter has come a long way in restricting freedom of expression.
Twitter employees, along with Democrats and far-left elements, have decided to delete my account on this platform. It’s an attempt to silence me, and so can you, the 75 million great patriots (Americans) who voted for me. ” Trump is also banned on Facebook and Instagram, In addition to Twitter, the social media company Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram have also suspended President Trump’s accounts indefinitely.
The two bodies made their decisions on Thursday, 7 January. The move was prompted by mounting pressure on social media to ban accounts created by President Trump on all social media platforms. Trump imposed more sanctions on Iran as he left, While many users expressed happiness and satisfaction over the permanent suspension of President Trump’s Twitter account, President Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. described it as a lack of freedom of expression in the United States. He wrote in a tweet, “Freedom of expression is no more in this country.”
