Posted on 06/01/2024 11:31:45 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
Elon Musk’s social media platform X will stage a town hall with former President Donald Trump — three years after he was suspended from the site in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.
The presumptive Republican nominee for president, who was convicted Thursday in connection with a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, will answer submitted questions during the livestream event, which will also be broadcast in a partnership deal with cable channel NewsNation.
The social media company is also planning a similar town hall with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, who is running for president as an independent. President Joe Biden was invited by the social media company to do a debate or a town hall, but he declined, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported news of the X sit-downs.
The date, location and moderators for the town halls have yet to be announced.
X users will submit questions but the moderators will have final say over what is asked.
The moderators will likely include at least one NewsNation host, alongside other journalists, Axios reported.
Trump, who famously steamrolled CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during a town hall last year, has the first of his two debates against Biden slated for June 27.
The idea for the town halls was first conceived by X CEO Linda Yaccarino, who pitched it to Nexstar Media Group, NewsNation’s parent company.
The Post has sought comment from X and NewsNation as well as the campaigns for Trump, Kennedy and Biden.
Trump has posted just once on X since his ban was lifted by Musk last year after he acquired the site formerly known as Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022,
The town hall comes a flurry of reports indicating that Musk and Trump have grown closer in recent months.
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The Truth will set you free.
I WILL REPEAT AGAIN—PER JIM’s RULES—STOP. DO NOT REPLY OR CONTACT ME.
Still, I think the traffic for a Trump event will be on a whole higher level. They should be prepared for that otherwise the site will crash.
“I think he was trying to hurt Trump when he bought Twitter.”
He promised a friend. He also restored Trump on Twitter.
I'm guessing he is a Mitt Romeny/Asa Hutchinson fan. I was going to include Nikki Haley, but she is the wrong ethnicity for him even though she is sort of a deep state player.
Elon was not friendly with Trump when he bought Twitter.
“Dems should also call off the attack – don’t make it so that Trump’s only way to survive is to regain the Presidency,” he continued.
Musk also replied to a Twitter user who tweeted a list of things Trump did during his presidency that the user considered positive: “Yeah, but too much drama. Do we really want a bull in a china shop situation every single day!?”
I think you are correct. Elon is just another globalist libertarian who wants corporations to be able to abuse people however they want and run roughshod over national sovereignty.
“TruthSocial is doing just fine,”
Can you provide data to back that up?
All I see is red.
Elon also is in bed with the Chicoms
Good God! where do you freaks come from?
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Actually he is to a large degree.
That doesn’t contradict the other positive things he’s doing.
He didn’t set up the system of engagement with and dependence on the Chicoms, but like most major business, he’s caught in the mire of what was a huge mistake orchestrated by foolish deep state globalist theories.
Reasons you hate Musk:
He restored free speech to Twitter
He eliminated his LBGTQ staff influence
He is ant-union
He supports Trump
He is anti-democrat
He abolished Twitter’s EU compliance group
He setup StarLink bringing remotes areas to the web
He sent a car into space
He builds great rockets and cars
Reset the Constitution not for the new world order (border)
“Look at the stock moron. Trump has made over $4B on it this year alone.”
Data on the company, please.
“You anti-Trump freaks are out in force today. Whats the matter, not getting the rush you thought you would after a conviction?”
Take your meds. That was not an anti-Trump post!
You’ve just made up a bunch of nonsense right there. He’s been very clear that he is a godless libertarian who voted for Obama. He’s also very clear that he loves China. And his Twitter purchase definitely hurt Trump.
All of that being true does not mean he has never done anything else good. I think he’s basically trying to edge Trump out Paul Ryan style rather than attack him too directly now. Musk has already said that Trump should go away forever. I don’t know how much more clear you can get than that that he does not support Trump. He might dislike Biden more than he dislikes Trump, but this just makes him a kind of Never Trumper RINO rather than a conservative.
“You’ve just made up a bunch of nonsense right there. “
Every item is fact.
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