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Trump announced the lawsuit against the Big Tech companies and their CEOs, including Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, from New Jersey on Wednesday. Funded by the conservative non-profit group America First Policy Institute, the lawsuit seeks an “immediate halt” to social media companies’ censoring of users and “blacklisting” them for political purposes, arguing this violates First Amendment rights.
Such companies, Trump argues, have become a “de facto censorship arm” of the government, being used not only to dispense its essential information, but also to decide which political messages were appropriate for users to express.
On the Capitol riot and his alleged role in it, Trump again denied inciting violence and said it would be an “easy” case to make when he is questioned under oath. His social media accounts were suspended following the riots, with the various platforms citing his alleged spread of misinformation and aggressive rhetoric as the reason for his banishment.
“In my opinion, that will be a case that will be easy, and I think we’re going to do very, very well,” Trump said. “There were a lot of reasons for people to be [at the Capitol and] it was unfairly covered by the press, but the report came out by Congress and it didn’t even mention my name, let alone anything else, so we’re in very good shape.”
Is this an indication Trump has advanced knowledge of the result of the Arizona audit and is planning an offensive based upon the political fallout it will generate?
Depositions? Maybe. Maybe not.
The three cases have now been assigned. Two of them to judges appointed by 0bama.
And, the third one assigned to a judge appointed by GHWBush.