As NTK Network reported, MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle broached that topic — seeing Trump removed from Twitter — on Monday when she asked a technology journalist whether Twitter will ever ban Trump and close down his official account, which has more than 52 million followers.
“According to The New York Times, Trump has insulted someone via Twitter 487 times. Is there a point in which Twitter says, ‘this is a violation of our ethics, we’re going to shut you down?’” Ruhle asked of panelist Kara Swisher of the Recode website.
Unfortunately for Ruhle, while Swisher most certainly didn’t defend Trump’s use of Twitter to insult other people, she nevertheless doubted that the platform would ever take the monumental step of banning the president from its purported “free speech” platform.
“I think Twitter laid out the position that he’s the president, and what he says is important, and so we’re going to publish it,” Swisher replied, likely to Ruhle’s dismay.
“I think there probably is a Rubicon he could cross, but he hasn’t crossed it yet, for Twitter at least,” she continued. “And it’s hard to say what it would take to do that.” – READ MORE
[divider][/divider]Via investigative reporter Paul Sperry of the New York Post: The lobbying records I reviewed, moreover, show Twitter has sought to influence Congress and federal agencies on behalf of Democratic causes and against President Trump’s policies.
Federal Election Commission records show that Gadde, for starters, has given exclusively to Democratic candidates, including the maximum donations allowed to both Clinton’s and Obama’s campaigns. In 2016, he gave $2,700 to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris of California, who won her US Senate bid.
Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey also donates only to Democrats. And in 2017, he and executive chairman Omid Kordestani together donated $530,000 to the ACLU to fight Trump’s executive order imposing a temporary travel ban on immigrants from high-risk Muslim countries, which Dorsey called “upsetting” but which the Supreme Court recently ruled constitutional. All told, Twitter gave $1.6 million to the anti-Trump ban effort.
Kordestani is a big Democrat donor, contributing the maximums to Clinton and Obama, as well as to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. In 2011, moreover, the Tehran-born exec gave $35,800 to the Obama Victory Fund and another $30,800 to the Democratic National Committee.
Also snubbing Republicans is Twitter Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, who has given exclusively to Democrats, including several thousands of dollars to Obama and former presidential candidate John Kerry. Segal has also contributed to DNC coffers.
Then there’s former Twitter CEO, current board director and major stakeholder Evan Williams. He’s shelled out more than $600,000 for the Democratic Party and Democrats running for federal office, FEC records show. Meantime, he has stiffed Republicans and the GOP.
What’s more, Evans in the past two presidential races pumped an additional $750,000 into Priorities USA Action — the largest Democratic Party super PAC — which contributes to leftist groups to help them turn out the vote for Democrats. Priorities USA is heavily funded by billionaire Trump-hater George Soros.
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