Former US President Donald Trump defended the annulment of the 2020 presidential election and the extinction of the US Constitution, demanding reinstatement to the presidency.
At the root is the decision by the new owner of the social network Twitter, Elon Musk, to reveal the company’s 2020 internal deliberations over the disclosure of a New York Post story based on files allegedly belonging to Hunter’s personal computer. Biden. The son of the current US president had already been targeted by Trump on alleged suspicions of illegalities committed in Ukraine.
Donald Trump wrote that the “founding fathers” of American democracy “would not want, nor would they condone, false and fraudulent elections,” returning to fuel conspiracy theories about his electoral defeat in the last presidential election and criticizing technology companies for, allegedly, be aligned with the Democrats.
This position of the former US president has already provoked a reaction from the White House, with spokesman Andrew Bates criticizing the statements as “anathema to the soul of the nation”, calling for Trump to be “universally condemned” for these statements.
“You can’t love America only when you win. The Constitution of the United States is a sacrosanct document that for more than 200 years has ensured that freedom and the rule of law prevail in our great country. The Constitution unites the American people, regardless of party, and elected leaders are sworn to uphold it,” Bates said.
Elon Musk shared Twitter’s deliberations – prior to joining the company – with journalist Matt Taibbi, who later disclosed them in a succession of posts on the social network.
The billionaire considered that the company later censored the disclosure of information about the personal computer of the current president’s son exposed in the New York Post and argued that such a leak of information would be necessary “to restore people’s trust.”
According to news site Politico, when the Post refused to remove a tweet about the story, Twitter suspended the outlet’s account for more than two weeks, before reversing the suspension in October. Twitter’s then-CEO Jack Dorsey later indicated that he regretted the decision. platform’s decision to censor the story.
In an extensive series of linked tweets, Taibbi also revealed that both the 2020 presidential campaigns – of the then incumbent, Donald Trump, and the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden – requested Twitter to remove messages posted on that social network.
Hunter Biden, whose erratic lifestyle was denounced for months by supporters of former President Donald Trump, remains the subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation that has focused on his tax affairs and foreign economic operations, in particularly in Ukraine.
Source: Observadora
