President Trump
Donald TrumpTrump acknowledges the end of the presidency after Congress certifies Biden’s victory Congress affirms Biden’s victory after protesters terrorize Third Capitol House Legislator tests positive for COVID-19 this week MOREThe Twitter account deleted the posts that led to his account being blocked on Wednesday night, a Twitter spokesman confirmed on Thursday.
Twitter temporarily suspended Trump’s account on Wednesday for the first time because of posts the president shared about the crowd of his supporters who broke into the Capitol. The platform said the posts violated its policies and required the president to delete them before regaining access to his account.
A Twitter spokesman said on Thursday that tweets were deleted and, according to Twitter policy, Trump will have access to his account 12 hours after the deletion.
Facebook on Wednesday also suspended Trump’s account, as well as his Instagram account, for 24 hours after deleting his posts about the Capitol riot.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
The richest people in Mark Elliot ZuckerbergWorld added .8T to their combined wealth in 2020 Selena Gomez criticizes Facebook about the disinformation COVID-19: ‘It will be responsible for thousands of deaths’ Facebook’s rivalry with Apple increases MORE on Thursday he said the ban on Trump’s account will be extended indefinitely, at least until the president-elect Joe Biden
Joe BidenTrump acknowledges the end of the presidency after Congress certifies Biden’s victory Congress claims Biden’s victory after protesters terrorized the Capitol See how the front pages of newspapers around the world looked after crowds invaded the Capitol MOREinauguration of.
A Twitter spokesman said the company had no information to share until late Thursday morning about the possible extension of the suspension of Trump’s Twitter account until his inauguration on January 20.
Wednesday marked the most drastic action platforms have taken against Trump’s accounts.
The action was triggered by a one-minute video that Trump posted urging his supporters who forced his way to Capitol to go home, but in the video he also repeated baseless allegations about widespread electoral fraud.
The video was removed by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube earlier on Wednesday night.
Trump followed up with a similar text post on Facebook and Twitter, which was also removed later before the platforms blocked Trump’s account.
Amid the suspension of his account, Trump released a statement shared on Twitter by Dan Scavino, the White House deputy chief of communications, acknowledging the end of his term.
“Although I totally disagree with the election result and the facts confirm it, there will be an orderly transition on January 20,” said Trump in the statement shared by Scavino “I always said that we would continue our fight to ensure that only the legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it is only the beginning of our struggle to make America great again! “
The statement was shared a few minutes after Congressional lawmakers formally tabulated the votes of the Electoral College showing Biden’s victory just before 4 am.