Elon Musk, left, and Wendell P. Weeks, center, perceive to President Donald Trump arsenic helium meets with concern leaders astatine the White House connected Monday January 23, 2017 successful Washington, DC.
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Twitter's astir celebrated banned user, erstwhile President Donald Trump, applauded the platform's caller ownership by billionaire Elon Musk, who antecedently said helium doesn't judge successful imperishable suspensions.
"I americium precise blessed that Twitter is present successful sane hands, and volition nary longer beryllium tally by Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs that genuinely hatred our country," Trump wrote connected his Truth Social account, a Twitter-like level tally by the Trump Media & Technology Group.
Trump did not code the anticipation of a instrumentality to the platform. Musk has said helium would assistance Trump's imperishable suspension, which Twitter installed successful the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 insurrection astatine the U.S. Capitol aft its enactment feared further unit could stem from Trump's tweets. Musk said that helium favors much impermanent measures.
Trump, for his part, said months agone that he would not return to the level adjacent if Musk reversed the ban. He began his connection Friday by touting Truth Social and claiming without grounds oregon specifics that the young level "had bigger numbers" past week "than each different platforms, including TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and the rest."
"Twitter indispensable present enactment hard to escaped itself of each of the bots and fake accounts that person wounded it truthful badly," Trump wrote connected Friday. "It volition beryllium overmuch smaller, but better."
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