Donald Trump Is Suing To Get His Twitter Account Back—He Can’t Be Serious!
October 6, 2021 by Maria Pierides
Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to get his Twitter account back, after being banned from the platform in January earlier this year. The 75-year-old former US president officially filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida on Friday, October 1st in an attempt to force Twitter to reinstate him, arguing that the ban actually violates the First Amendment, as well as Florida’s new social media law. Wow – we’ve never known anyone to be this obsessed with Twitter!
If you can recall, Trump was banned from the social network just two days after the deadly January 6th riots at the Capitol building which involved pro-Trump supporters protesting Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. Twitter initially banned Trump’s account for 12 hours due to the “repeated and severe violations” of the Civic Integrity Policy after he kept tweeting that the election was stolen from him, and then banned him permanently two days later. Facebook, Snapchat and YouTube also banned him following the riots, although Facebook’s Oversight Board later upheld that decision.