Former President Donald Trump is set to make an announcement at 11:00 at Bedminster, but unsurprisingly, it’s about one of his grievances. The Twitter-addicted twice-impeached one-term president has never gotten over his ban on the sites that deplatformed him. According to what sources told Axios, the former president plans to announce class action lawsuits today against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. Trump seems to think that it’s a matter of free speech and censorship, even though neither of those applies to social media sites.
“Trump’s legal effort is supported by the America First Policy Institute, a non-profit focused on perpetuating Trump’s policies,” Axios reports. “The group’s president and CEO and board chair, former Trump officials Linda McMahon and Brooke Rollins, will accompany him during the announcement.”
“Class action lawsuits would enable him to sue the two tech CEOs on behalf of a broader group of people that he argues have been censored by biased policies,” the report continues. “To date, Trump and other conservative critics have not presented any substantial evidence that either platform is biased against conservatives in its policies or implementation of them.”
Conservatives have tried to claim that social media sites target them to suppress their opinions, but that is not true. Trump was banned after he incited the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. There are rules for the different social media sites, and if they aren’t followed, then the ban hammer comes down.
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“Even during his presidency, Trump has tried to take aim at both CEOs and tech companies. In 2020, he signed an executive order that was meant to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies from liability for the content users post on their platforms,” the outlet reports. “President Biden revoked that executive order in May.”
This might not work out well for the former guy.
Assuming the lawsuit advances (which is a big if), Trump will have to give sworn testimony about January 6 https://t.co/olegHBbqQN
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) July 7, 2021
And you can’t go after social media sites simply because they hurt your feelings. That’s not how it works. I think he believes he’s still the president. Case in point:
The scene at Bedminster in preparation for Trump’s 11AM announcement about how he’s going to protect free speech. pic.twitter.com/S9yJRu0YZH
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) July 7, 2021
Featured image via Michael Vadon/Flickr, under Creative Commons license 2.0
