Controversial Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene earned her fifth strike on Twitter over circulating misinformation on COVID-19, so the platform banned her personal account. Greene still has access to her Congressional account, though. Greene’s tweet that earned her a ban was one claiming that there had been an “extremely high amount of Covid vaccine deaths.” And that’s just not true. Then Facebook barred Greene from posting or commenting on the social media platform for 24 hours after sharing misinformation about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Former President Donald Trump, who has been deplatformed himself for inciting the deadly January 6 Capitol riot, lashed out over Greene’s ban. Trump called Twitter “a disgrace to democracy” and said the company “shouldn’t be allowed to do business in this Country.”
“Everybody should drop off of Twitter and Facebook,” Trump insisted. “They’re boring, have only a Radical Left point of view, and are hated by everyone. They are a disgrace to our Nation. Keep fighting, Marjorie!”
You can read his complete crazy-time statement below:
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President Donald J. Trump:
“Twitter is a disgrace to democracy. They shouldn’t be allowed to do business in this Country. Marjorie Taylor Greene has a huge constituency of honest, patriotic, hard-working people. They don’t deserve what’s happened to them on places like… pic.twitter.com/1k8EBViWTc
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) January 4, 2022
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Twitter users pounced.
Oh for Christ sakes, it was only her personal account. Twitter and Facebook our private platforms and they can do whatever they want. They did not shut down our official government page. But give it a few days, because the way she’s going that one will get shut down also.
— Judi Stern Levine @DobbsGirl1 (@SternLevine) January 4, 2022
🚨Donald ? 🚨🚨I LOVE this 👀👇🏻 pic.twitter.com/K2rVx0aPIC
— E.Didrik (@e_didrik) January 4, 2022
This one makes me smile 😊 pic.twitter.com/0JIzU9rXm8
— PLS (@PLS7180) January 4, 2022
— Jack Hopkins (@theanxietydoc) January 4, 2022
Hello, Wondering if he had an account. pic.twitter.com/MClb60i4W5
— Jfh3 (@Jfh33) January 4, 2022
This is true:
— – – —• Kelley •— – – (@andreagail_k) January 4, 2022
Twitter why is Donald allowed to have a Twitter account labeled liz harrington??
— oma257 (@oma2572) January 4, 2022
Trump’s kids got served and he released a statement defending…Marjorie Taylor Greene.
— Mr. Newberger + (@jeremynewberger) January 4, 2022
Maybe elected officials should tell the truth amid the pandemic that’s taken over 826,000 lives in this country. Now there’s an idea.
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