"Plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021." Twitter on Friday confirmed there are already plans circulating for future armed protests at the Capitol. Capitol this week, including a police officer who died from his injuries and a woman who was fatally shot by police. "As such, our determination is that the two Tweets above are likely to inspire others to replicate the violent acts that took place on January 6, 2021, and that there are multiple indicators that they are being received and understood as encouragement to do so," the company said.įive people lost their lives as a result of the violence on the U.S. Twitter permanently suspended President Trump's account "due to the risk of further incitement of violence." Other social media sites also removed Trump from their platforms. 6 riots, which the then-president was accused of inciting. Mark Esper was weak and totally ineffective, and because of it, I had to run the military, the Trump statement reads. Twitter permanently banned Trump in the immediate aftermath of the Jan. Twitter said this could depict the election as illegitimate. In a statement that 60 Minutes shared on Twitter on Sunday, Trump denied a number of Esper’s claims but notably declined to comment on the plan to hit Mexico with missiles. Trump said he wouldn't be attending President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration.
Twitter said some have interpreted the tweet as support for the rioters who stormed the Capitol this week and that he plans to continue supporting people who believe his false claims of winning the November 2020 election. Twitter said early Thursday morning that Trump deleted the offending tweets and that his account would be restored within 12 hours, according to Bloomberg. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!" Trump said: "The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future.