President Trump

2022 - 12 - 24

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Pressure builds to keep Trump off Facebook ahead of possible ... (Business Insider)

Trump's suspension could be lifted as soon as January, but Democratic lawmakers argue that he's still threatening public safety with misinformation.

Trump commits further violations in future, up to and including permanent removal of his pages and accounts," the company statement says. Another [study](https://accountabletech.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Ongoing-Insurrection.pdf) by Accountable Tech found more than 350 of Trump's Truth Social posts would violate Facebook's safety guidelines. He had posted a video telling the mob, "We love you, you're very special," and asking them to go home. André Carson and Kathy Castor wrote Sheldon Whitehouse, and Reps. Trump's Twitter suspension has lifted under its new owner Elon Musk, but Trump hasn't returned to the site. They argue that the former president and current Republican presidential candidate shouldn't be allowed back on the platform because he continues to threaten public safety by spreading misinformation. "Based on his current patterns, we're seeing him amplify extremism, problematic content that has been linked to real world violence." ["Keep Trump Off Facebook"](https://keeptrumpofffacebook.com/) campaign, which included a six-figure digital and [TV ad](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ethpPXdMjrk) buy. [were reportedly told](https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-trump-fact-checking-halted-presidential-run-2024-announced-meta-2022-11) they could not verify the facts and claims in his posts if Trump were a presidential candidate, which he now is. [removed some of his statements](https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112681480907401), but his page still [remains frozen](https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump) on January 6, 2021, serving as a chilling reminder of the violence on that day that led to five deaths. [company statement](https://about.fb.com/news/2021/06/facebook-response-to-oversight-board-recommendations-trump/), which said the company would consult with experts after the two-year suspension to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded.

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Is Trump now forced to run third-party? (The Hill)

Former President Donald Trump smiles toward guests, as he arrives to speak at an event at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 18, 2022, in Palm Beach, Fla.

It’s a number that Trump knows he surely could best, and that might make him believe he could cobble together just enough states and electoral votes to win in a three-way race. Might Trump do the same thing to punish DeSantis and “disloyal” Republicans? Douglas MacKinnon, a political and communications consultant, was a writer in the White House for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Instead, I think he made the announcement to keep his “franchise” viable and keep the campaign donations coming in. That answer has nothing to do with basic math, however, and everything to do with a “sandbox mentality.” With his star waning, are the numbers still there for him to entertain a run? Although I believe that’s a generous estimate, the fact is that tens of millions of Americans remain loyal to Trump. And what if Trump finally does roll out a kinder, gentler, more statesman-like version of himself for 2024? With each passing week, there are reports of more and more Republicans suffering from “Trump fatigue.” Although many still strongly approve of most of Trump’s policies from his four years in the White House, they have grown increasingly tired of his perceived juvenile antics and insults. That is where the next part of the math equation comes into play. At a certain point, all decisions and election chances in politics come down to basic math. Former President Donald Trump has some of that basic math working against him — but also, for him.

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Is this the end of Donald J. Trump? - The Sunday Guardian Live (The Sunday Guardian)

It's been a terrible week for former President Donald Trump. On Monday, the House Select Committee released their report on the events of 6 January last year, ...

And the network captioned him with headlines such as “Democrats See Trump as Easier to Beat”, which ran for hours before Trump’s announcement that he would stand again. Jean Carroll, that Donald Trump allegedly raped her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid-1990s and defamed her when he denied the rape, saying that she was “not his type”. October next year will see the start of a trial in which the New York Attorney General, Letitia James, will allege that Donald Trump, three of his adult children and the Trump organisation have been involved in expansive fraud lasting over a decade. But Trump is unrepentant and is determined to stay the course, results be damned. I don’t even wait.” He then boasted of the norms of being a famous man: “They let you do it. According to the lawsuit, the Trump Organisation deceived lenders, insurers and tax authorities by inflating the values of properties using misleading appraisals. The DOJ has yet to bring any charges against Trump, although it is already conducting two probes against him for his involvement in 6 January and his handling of classified documents he kept at Mar-a Lago after leaving the White House early last year. After one of the most exhaustive and aggressive congressional probes in memory, with more than 1,000 interviews conducted and a million documents examined, the nine-member panel, consisting of seven Democrats and two Republicans, recommended that criminal charges be made against Trump and those associates who helped him launch a wide-ranging pressure campaign to try to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election. “This was an utter moral failure and a clear dereliction of duty, the first time an American President refused his constitutional duty to transfer power peacefully to the next,” she claimed. The four-week trial provided an unflattering glimpse into the inner workings of the real estate empire that helped Trump amass wealth, fame and political clout. Then, referring to the tens of millions of Americans who had been persuaded by President Trump that the 2020 election was stolen by “overwhelming fraud”, Cheney said that “we also knew this was flatly false. On Monday, the House Select Committee released their report on the events of 6 January last year, in which they recommended that Trump should face criminal charges.

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