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Fifth ‘Twitter files’ release details Trump’s last hours on platform as employees fumed
NY Post ^ | December 12, 2022 | By David Propper

Posted on 12/12/2022 10:37:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The fifth installment in the bombshell “Twitter Files” revealed Monday that staffers inside the social media giant pushed for former President Donald Trump to be barred from the social media platform, ostensibly for good.

Trump was banned from Twitter on Jan. 8, 2021, two days after a mob of his supporters breached the Capitol building and interrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory.

According to journalist Bari Weiss, Trump tweeted twice on the morning of the 8th — once to praise the almost 75 million Americans who voted for him in the election and proclaim “They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”

In a second tweet, Trump announced he would not attend Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

In Weiss’ telling, the first tweet caused an uproar among Twitter’s employees, with one writing: “We have to do the right thing here and ban this account.”

“[E]xtraordinary circumstances demand extraordinary leadership,” another wrote, while a third added “its [sic] pretty obvious he’s going to try to thread the needle of incitement while not violating the rules.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bigtech; censorship; elonmusk; freespeech; musk; trump; truthsocial; twitter
https://twitter.com/bariweiss
1 posted on 12/12/2022 10:37:07 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
On Saturday, writer Michael Shellenberger outlined how Twitter staffers pushed for policy changes to bar Trump after the riot, which was blamed for the deaths of five people.

BLAMED for? Yeah, as opposed to actually CAUSED, because it didn't.

2 posted on 12/12/2022 10:41:49 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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Good live feed here
Live THE TWITTER FILES PART FIVE.

THE REMOVAL OF TRUMP FROM TWITTER.

https://rumble.com/v209tta-twitter-files-5-time-for-truth.html


3 posted on 12/12/2022 10:42:54 AM PST by janetjanet998
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
breached the Capitol building

Breached? They were let in.

4 posted on 12/12/2022 10:51:27 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"...after a mob of his supporters breached the Capitol building..."

Seemed like a good stopping point.

5 posted on 12/12/2022 10:51:49 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Twitter employees concluded that Trump broke no twitter rules. Vjay steps in and says to ban him for “future potential incitement of violence”. They also equated Trumps use of the word “Patriots” to “Terrorists”, and declared Trump was leading a bunch of terrorists equating this to Hitler and the Nazis......

Several other world leaders including the Ayotallah of Iran, actualled tweeted about needing to wipe Israel off the map. Twitter looked into it, and declared no policy violation and no banning.


6 posted on 12/12/2022 10:56:12 AM PST by gswilder
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To: gswilder

What a circus. And to think our government is run by the same leftist activist corrupt haters as twatter.


7 posted on 12/12/2022 10:56:59 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
two days after a mob of his supporters breached the Capitol building


All the rioters were not Trump supporters. For crying out loud, we still do not know who Ray Epps is, or why he was removed from the FBI's Most Wanted List. How many times in the FBI's history has a suspect been removed without a reason, from the FBI's Most Wanted List?
8 posted on 12/12/2022 11:03:17 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Remember August 8!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

musk going after Brennan . Interesting to watch. I still suspect that Musk has some sort of Deep State backing somewhere. So perhaps there is war going on way behind the scenes


9 posted on 12/12/2022 11:09:40 AM PST by RummyChick ( )
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To: gswilder

Vjay steps in and says to ban him for “future potential incitement of violence”.

I’m living in the sci-fi world of “Minority Report”.


10 posted on 12/12/2022 11:18:43 AM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: RummyChick

Yes, something is up.

This morning Bannon played a Morning Joe clip that discussed the absurdity of investigating Hunter. During the back and forth between Joe and Mika, Mika stated as a passing comment, “Brennan lied” as a way of justifying her stance on Hunter.

IOW, it appears Brennan is no longer the protected and media will not carry his water anymore.

The level of depravity is mind boggling.


11 posted on 12/12/2022 12:17:51 PM PST by Moe-Patrick (If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem)
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To: Flick Lives

Yeah


12 posted on 12/12/2022 12:23:33 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Twitter knew Trump Ban Was A LIE Leaked Comms Reveal. Twitter Files 5 proves that staff knew Trump broke no rules and were desperate to find an excuse to justify his ban.

Tom Pool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f65dTvtzExM


13 posted on 12/12/2022 12:56:46 PM PST by Texan4Life
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To: Moe-Patrick

very interesting

wonder if they have decided he will be the fall guy


14 posted on 12/12/2022 1:07:40 PM PST by RummyChick ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

later


15 posted on 12/12/2022 2:27:48 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

The FBI has refused to say whether any of their informants were inside the Capitol. Which obviously means the answer is “yes”.


16 posted on 12/12/2022 4:53:36 PM PST by lasereye ( )
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To: RummyChick

That is how I interpret it. The fact that it was said ‘in passing’ without response and it was framed as not a big deal - yet it was decisive. They don’t need a fall guy, they just need to shutdown that part of the story. By labeling him a liar ends that part of the story. But Brennan is finished as far as media goes until this laptop story is dead. Which will happen. Then Brennan will re-appear like all scum does.

If you watch these and other knuckleheads early in the fight, you can see them trying different approaches to win the upcoming battle. What works and what doesn’t. We are in that timeframe now with the ‘laptop’, they’ve already decided to let go of the ‘50 intelligence officers and their claims’ so they can jump to the next topic - laptop contents. Meanwhile, the deep state is eager to attack the repairman and Hunters partner Bobbinski (? spelling).

Will it make much of a difference? I doubt it. Until the people collectively fight back, nothing will change.

This is off topic, but it is appalling that no republican leadership or approach has changed since 2000 despite MAGA. Some seats have flipped MAGA but the core remains. No president can change that, only the voters.


17 posted on 12/12/2022 5:25:35 PM PST by Moe-Patrick (If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem)
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To: RummyChick

That was my thought as well.7


18 posted on 12/12/2022 5:28:55 PM PST by vivenne
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