President Trump has been banned from Twitter after Wednesday’s US Capitol riot, and Congresswoman Nancy Mace, RS.C., is calling the social media giant’s response the height of hypocrisy.
“Twitter is being completely hypocritical about it and, frankly, it is not American,” she told Fox & Friends Weekend.
Mace argued that banning the President of the United States for violating Twitter rules and standards is “one thing”, but not applying these rules to all users and accounts reveals a clear double standard. She then asked Twitter to be “clear and consistent” in its application.
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Mace cited that Chinese Communist Party officials were allowed to defend on Twitter what human rights groups called the genocide of Uighur Muslims.
Supporters of President Trump attend a rally in Washington on January 6, 2021. (AP Photo / John Minchillo, Archives)
The congresswoman said that Twitter is “clearly” benefiting from foreign leaders and terrorist groups that threaten our country and our online allies.
“To be going through all the pain that our country is facing right now – we have been in enormous pain for the past five and a half days and it looks like you are throwing gasoline on the fire,” she said. “It is very sad. I am sad for our country.”
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“We have to make the right decision, starting today, moving on, not to let these voices of violence take over,” he added.
Mace asked the president on Saturday to hoist the flag at half-mast in honor of police officer Brian Sicknick, who was killed on the job during the disturbances on Wednesday.
In the letter, she detailed that Sicknick made the “final sacrifice” to protect the nation’s democracy.