{"id":120669,"date":"2021-02-08T09:31:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T14:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120669"},"modified":"2021-02-08T10:59:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T15:59:24","slug":"ex-parler-ceo-says-he-didnt-want-deal-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-parler-ceo-says-he-didnt-want-deal-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Parler CEO Says He Didn\u2019t Want Deal With Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-parler-ceo-says-he-didnt-want-deal-with-trump%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=120669&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former Parler CEO John Matze said in a new interview that he didn\u2019t want to work directly with former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> while still with the social media company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t like the idea of working with Trump, because he might have bullied people inside the company to do what he wanted,\u201d Matze said on \u201cAxios\u201d on HBO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I was worried that if we didn\u2019t sign the deal, he might have been vengeful and told his followers to leave Parler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump never appeared to join Parler before it was removed from Amazon Web Services in January, shortly after Parler showed an explosion of growth due to Twitter banning Trump and other conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/gab-ceo-denies-trump-signed-up-for-website_3688021.html\">has also not joined Gab<\/a>, another primary competitor to Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Trump didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment through his political action committee.<\/p>\n<p>Matze reportedly met with Trump campaign officials last year to discuss a deal that would give Trump\u2019s company a stake in Parler. Trump\u2019s campaign didn\u2019t return an inquiry. Matze told Axios that he did meet with campaign officials at Mar-a-Lago, Trump\u2019s private club, and that the meeting was arranged by Parler investor Jeffrey Wernick.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20180325-Trump-SamiraBouaou-8585-3-1200x800-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-large wp-image-3675126\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" alt=\"trump\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20180325-Trump-SamiraBouaou-8585-3-1200x800-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3675126\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20180325-Trump-SamiraBouaou-8585-3-1200x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"trump\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then-President Donald Trump returns to the White House in Washington on March 25, 2018. (Samira Bouaou\/The Epoch Times)<\/p>\n<p>Parler in a lawsuit against Amazon alleged the company was aware of public speculation that Trump would likely switch to Parler after being banned by Twitter. Parler told a judge that a delay in granting a temporary restraining order against Amazon\u2019s decision to kick Parler off its servers could \u201csound Parler\u2019s death knell as President Trump and others move on to other platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause there was a widespread public expectation that President Trump would join the Parler platform after being expelled from Twitter, there was a very real possibility that Parler\u2019s estimated value might soon rise to several billions of dollars,\u201d Matze wrote in a court filing last month.<\/p>\n<p>Parler also asserted that Amazon \u201capparently wanted to support the effort in some circles to deny any meaningful social media platform to Trump, while at the same time protecting its major client, Twitter, from the economic fallout of Trump\u2019s moving from Twitter to a competitor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon didn\u2019t directly address the matter in court. The judge in the case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/judge-rejects-parlers-request-for-order-forcing-amazon-to-keep-hosting-service_3666247.html\">ruled against Parler\u2019s request<\/a> for a temporary restraining order. The overarching case is still ongoing. The last move was on Jan. 28, when the judge said Parler would file an amended complaint no later than Feb. 16, and Amazon would have until March 22 to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Matze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/parler-ceo-john-matze-announces-his-termination_3684204.html\">was terminated<\/a>\u00a0from his role at Parler, he announced last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Parler CEO John Matze said in a new interview that he didn\u2019t want to work directly with former President Donald Trump while still with the social media company. \u201cI &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3715,4352,5757,4005,4513,3635],"class_list":["post-120669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-deal","tag-didnt","tag-ex-parler","tag-says","tag-want","tag-with"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}