Twitter Pulls Three Trump Tweets, Locks Down His Account, Threatens 'Permanent Suspension' Over Civic Integrity, Violent Threat Violations

WASHINGTON D.C. — (01-06-21) — Twitter enforced its strongest sanctions against Donald Trump yet, deleting, locking down, and warning a full ban is under consideration following the president sending a series of egregiously irresponsibly tweets both fueling and excusing the unprecedented assault and violence at the Capitol by his right-wing extremist supporters.

On Wednesday, Twitter deleted three of Trump’s tweets about the MAGA mob assault on the Capitol, including an outrageous false tweet claiming he won a “sacred landslide” and implicitly blaming the victim, Congress, for its own ransacking because its political leaders — and his own vice president — dared to go forward with certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

Within minutes of Trump’s tweet, Twitter posted a short thread linking to its civic integrity policy and explaining that the deletions were for “repeated and severe violations” of it.

Twitter then divulged that it was temporarily blocking Donald Trump’s twitter account for 12 hours.

Review the Official Trump Warnings to Donald Trump:

As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy. https://t.co/k6OkjNG3bM

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 7, 2021

This means that the account of @realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours following the removal of these Tweets. If the Tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked.

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 7, 2021

Finally, the social media giant issued perhaps its most pointed warning that Trump faced “permanent suspension” from Twitter if he continued to incite violence among his political supporters.

Article by: Paul Goldberg, Staff Writer

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