There’s no denying that the Conservative crowd is chomping at the bit to see Telsa CEO Elon Musk complete his takeover of the popular Twitter social media platform. Frankly, it took no time at all for Right-wing accounts to start seeing a massive boost in their followings while Liberal accounts began to quickly suffer and stall, following the news that the controversial billionaire would be acquiring the social media company — despite the fact that the sale isn’t even fully complete yet.
But it seems a lot of these Right-leaning, MAGA-loving doofuses are counting their chickens before they hatch, so to speak, and it’s serving to bite them in the butt in a pretty hilarious, albeit embarrassing for them, kinda way.
According to new reporting from the Daily Beast, none other than Trump-loving pillow salesman and unhinged conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell attempted to make a massive Twitter comeback on the heels of the Musk acquisition news — only to be booted back off of the platform about as quickly as he jumped on it.
Over the weekend, the crazy MyPillow guy returned to Twitter on the heels of the news that Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has agreed to purchase the platform for a whopping $44 billion. But Lindell’s big comeback was about as short-lived as they come, as just three and a half hours after announcing his return to the platform, following his permanent ban last year, Lindell’s account was banned from the platform once more.
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“Hello, everyone at Twitter. This is Mike Lindell,” the MyPillow CEO said in a video he posted to his new Twitter account on Sunday afternoon, around 1 p.m. ET. “I’m here to tell you about my new account here, @MikeJLindell. That’s the only account over here at Twitter that I’m using.”
Mike Lindell today announces he has just created a new twitter account to try and evade his permanent ban. pic.twitter.com/M5VpFIMWra
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) May 1, 2022
” So we started this account,” Lindell continued in the clip. “Please share it with everybody you know. Let everybody you know so we can get the word out over here at Twitter in case they do take it down.”
Lindell had accumulated about 39,000 followers by the time he was banned again.
A spokesperson for Twitter spoke to the Beast on Sunday evening regarding the short-lived Lindell account and said, “The account you referenced was permanently suspended for violating the Twitter Rules on ban evasion.”
The publication also reached out to Lindell on the new ban, who said it was a “shame.”
“We need to melt down the voting machines and turn them into prison bars!” he raged. “Jack Dorsey should be first in line for prison!”
Lindell, along with many other prominent Right-wing figures was banned from the popular social media platform in January 2021, due to “repeated violations” of the platform’s civic integrity policy. He attempted to circumvent the ban by using the MyPillow company’s official Twitter account, but it didn’t last long.
Lindell wasn’t the only one who thought he was scot-free now, as close Trump ally Roger Stone also attempted to create a new Twitter account following the Musk news after receiving a permanent ban from the platform, only to once again be removed within 6 hours of its creation.
Speaking of Stone’s second ban, a Twitter spokesperson told the Beast, “The account referenced [Stone’s new account] was permanently suspended for violations of the Twitter Rules, specifically our ban evasion policy.”
Read the full report from the Daily Beast right here.
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