{"id":1460249,"date":"2022-05-02T11:59:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T15:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1460249"},"modified":"2022-05-02T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T15:59:51","slug":"elon-musk-was-vehemently-opposed-to-trump-twitter-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-was-vehemently-opposed-to-trump-twitter-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Was \u201cVehemently Opposed\u201d to Trump Twitter Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Felon-musk-was-vehemently-opposed-to-trump-twitter-ban%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=1460249&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--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/elon-musk-says-truth-social-exists-because-twitter-censored-free-speech\">Recent Twitter owner Elon Musk<\/a> says that he &#8220;vehemently&#8221; opposed the banning of then-President Donald Trump on Twitter, saying that the tech platform was wrong for doing so.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to a report, Musk&#8217;s top assistant Jared Birchall, said that he told an associate that he believed banning Trump was an &#8220;insane&#8221; move.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Musk reportedly &#8220;remains dismayed&#8221; that Trump is not allowed to tweet, reports the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-shadow-crew-who-encouraged-elon-musks-twitter-takeover-tesla-jack-dorsey-11651260119\">Wall Street Journal.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Truth Social (terrible name) exists because Twitter censored free speech<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1519363666377908225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Twitter said in a statement on January 8, 2021 that the then-President&#8217;s account had been suspended &#8220;after close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them \u2014 specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter \u2014 we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,&#8221; they wrote at the time.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Musk has not given any public statements on whether or not he would reinstate the former President, though Trump himself has made it clear that he would not be returning to the platform.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Trump has instead opted for his own project, and has begun posting on <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/trump-says-he-will-not-be-returning-to-twitter-opts-for-truth-social-instead\">Truth Social.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;I hope Elon buys Twitter because he&#8217;ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Trump told Fox News in an exclusive statement that he will begin &#8220;TRUTHing&#8221; over the next week.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re taking in millions of people, and what we\u2019re finding is that the response on TRUTH is much better than being on Twitter,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Twitter has bots and fake accounts, and we are doing everything we can.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;The bottom line is, no, I am not going back to Twitter,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>He has since <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/im-back-trump-returns-to-social-media-on-truth-social\">posted on to Truth<\/a>, truthing &#8220;I&#8217;M BACK&#8221; along with the hashtag #COVFEFE.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Trump\u2019s 2017 &#8220;covfefe&#8221; post garnered more than 100,000 likes and retweets each before it was deleted, turning into a meme that spread across the internet.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent Twitter owner Elon Musk says that he &#8220;vehemently&#8221; opposed the banning of then-President Donald Trump on Twitter, saying that the tech platform was wrong for doing so.According<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1888561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","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":[],"class_list":["post-1460249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"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\/1460249","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}