Twitter Permanently Banning Donald Trump Is 'Absolute Authoritarian Lunacy'

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet 

Before Christmas, this was floated: Twitter could permanently ban Donald Trump. At the time, being the sitting president, he was offered an exemption. You can’t ban the leader of the free world. Well, given the events of this week and the storming of the Capitol Building by pro-Trump supporters, the social media giant has decided to ban the president of the United States days before he’s set to leave office.

“After assessing the language" in two Jan. 8 tweets "we have determined that these Tweets are in violation of the Glorification of Violence Policy and the user @realDonaldTrump should be immediately permanently permanently suspended from the service,” Twitter said in a statement (via Fox News):

Twitter announced the permanent suspension of President Trump’s account Friday, after spending months flagging his tweets with warnings but stopping short of that step.

Sharing two relatively tame tweets the president made earlier in the day, including one in which he said he would not attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, the company argued that they had to be viewed in part of a greater context.

Read more and see tweets here: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2021/01/08/twitter-bans-trump-n2582848