{"id":1470445,"date":"2022-05-10T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470445"},"modified":"2022-05-10T15:15:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:15:04","slug":"making-twitter-great-again-elon-musk-will-reinstate-donald-trumps-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/making-twitter-great-again-elon-musk-will-reinstate-donald-trumps-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Twitter Great Again: Elon Musk Will Reinstate Donald Trump\u2019s Account"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fmaking-twitter-great-again-elon-musk-will-reinstate-donald-trumps-account%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=1470445&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/\">Latest News<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Banning former prez was &#8216;morally wrong and flat-out stupid,&#8217; incoming Twitter CEO says<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tElon Musk and, in the background, former president Donald Trump \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/karl-salzmann\/\" title=\"Posts by Karl Salzmann\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Karl Salzmann<\/a> \u2022 May 10, 2022 3:00 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Incoming Twitter CEO Elon Musk will reverse the social media platform&#8217;s permanent ban on former president Donald Trump, Musk announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump. I think that was a mistake because it alienated a large part of the country,&#8221; Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VfyrQVhfGZc&#038;t=1524s&#038;ab_channel=FTLive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> at a <em>Financial Times<\/em> conference. &#8220;I would reverse the permaban.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk, the richest man on Earth, is finalizing a $44 billion takeover bid of Twitter. The social media platform announced last month that it will take him up on his offer, though the deal will take months to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Musk at the conference noted that he does &#8220;not own Twitter yet&#8221; and cannot reinstate the former president until he does.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But my opinion\u2014and [Twitter cofounder] Jack Dorsey, I want to be clear, shares this opinion\u2014is that we should not have permabans,&#8221; Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, among other companies, has called himself a &#8220;free speech absolutist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Twitter banned Trump in light of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, claiming that Trump encouraged it. When the conference interviewer asked about the riot, Musk said people who incite violence could face suspensions.<\/p>\n<p>Banning Trump, however, was &#8220;morally wrong and flat-out stupid,&#8221; Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said in April that he will not return to Twitter even if Musk lifts the ban.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest News Banning former prez was &#8216;morally wrong and flat-out stupid,&#8217; incoming Twitter CEO says  Elon Musk and, in the background, former president Donald Trump \/ Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470445","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\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}