Donald Trump Breaks Two Year Twitter Silence With Four Word Message After Mugshot Is Released

Aug 24 (Reuters) โ€“ Former President Donald Trump returned to the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, with a post on Thursday showing his mug shot from his booking at Fulton County Jail in Georgia earlier in the day.
With his post appealing for donations, Trump reclaimed direct access to the public on the platform that banned him following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress by his supporters.

On Nov. 19 the San Francisco-based app reversed its position under billionaire Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed โ€œfree speech absolutistโ€ who bought Twitter on Oct. 2.

Trump, who had over 88 million followers when Twitter banned him, posted a photo on Thursday of the mug shot with the words: โ€œELECTION INTERFERENCE! NEVER SURRENDER!โ€ The post garnered more than 14 million views 50 minutes after going live.
Twitter permanently suspended Trumpโ€™s account in January 2021, citing the risk of further incitement of violence following the storming of the U.S. Capitol.

He used Twitter and other social media platforms to claim his defeat in the 2020 election was due to widespread voter fraud and to share other conspiracy theories.


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