It was a technical violation of arcane Campaign Finance Rules. They argued over the technicalities in court and the judge agreed with the FEC as to the interpretation. It should’ve been handled differently, which isn’t the same as claiming it was improper,
much less illegal, to have done it at all.
More to the actual point of this thread, that case has nothing to do at all with thus-far purely conjectural GOP misfeasance involving Twitter.
Riddle me this:
What are the odds that, if a GOP actor had solicited Twitter 1.0 seeking to silence opposing political Tweets, that info wouldn’t have magically “leaked” to the Press in, like, 23 seconds?
Given what we now know about the prior composition of Twitter’s Content Moderation team at that time, and their attitudes and their overt infusion of their politics into their jobs at Twitter, can you conceive of any credible scenario where anyone bearing even the faintest whiff of GOP — much less actual Conservative — political association could have pulled off what these leftist did, and had a snowball’s chance in Hell of it remaining secret?
How about you just take the easy route and admit that the probability of that having happened is indistinguishable from ZERO.
Who cares if it was only Twitter? We’re pissed that someone from Biden’s team worked in concert with Twitter. Trump’s team worked with National Enquirer. Enquirer’s parent company has excellent lawyers. Whatever was agreed to wasn’t out of being naive or being duped into a stupid agreement. But team Trump coordinated to spike a story in a tabloid that everyone going through a supermarket line would see. And add to that the coordination with major talk show hosts to amplify good things and minimize the bad. That of course soft ball questions from friendly Fox hosts on a regular basis. Of course, nothing wrong with that, right? We’re trying to create a tempest in a teapot.