NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has returned to X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, and sent his first message in more than two-and-a-half years after visiting an Atlanta prison for conspiracy. charges to nullify his electoral defeat.
He posted a photo of his passport and the message “Election interference. Never give up!” and a link to their website, which links to a fundraising page.
It was Trump’s first message since Jan. 8, 2021, when Twitter suspended his account indefinitely, raising fears he could simply incite additional violence after the fatal storming of the U. S. Capitol. His account was reinstated last November, shortly after Elon Musk took over the company, but Trump refrained from tweeting, insisting he was happier on his own online page Truth Social, on which he introduced the ban.
Trump, the current frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, had said for months that he planned to return to the platform at the “right time,” according to a user familiar with his comments who was not authorized to disclose user conversations and spoke on condition. of anonymity. Trump’s message came as he aboard his personal plane, returning from Atlanta to his summer home in New Jersey on Thursday night.
It was not immediately clear if the post was one-time or if he intended to continue posting on the site. He had posted the same message on Truth Social the night before and continued to promote the site Thursday night.
“I LOVE SOCIAL TRUTH. THIS IS MY HOME!!” He wrote.
– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2023
This new message came a day after Trump skipped the first Republican debate, opting instead to record an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, published on X as a counterprogramming to the start of the debate.
The return to X with what was, in effect, a fundraising speech also reflects how much money the Trump campaign spent on lawyers as it fights criminal fees in four jurisdictions. Trump’s political operation entered the second part of the year in a tight monetary situation. With a bank account tired of tens of millions of dollars meant to protect the former president and his allies.
Trump has 86. 6 million fans in what is now X, eclipsing his rivals in the 2024 race.
But the platform has undergone tweaks since Trump abandoned it, adding that Musk changed its name.
Trump returned to Facebook in March and posted, “I’M BACK!”a few weeks after the reactivation of your account.
But he stood firm with Truth Social, the Twitter double he introduced after being suspended from Twitter and Facebook, to publish a daily feed of missives, announcements and forwards. This includes the platform to announce its accusations and planned deliveries, while facing an unfolding development. List of legal issues.
As part of its agreement with Digital World Acquisition Corp. To make Truth Social public, Trump had agreed – to compete with his own company – that it would be the “first channel” for “all communications and all communications on social media. “. messages from your non-public profile,” according to a filing with the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
This included an exclusivity clause in which the former president “was generally required to publish any social media post on Truth Social and simply could not post the same post on some other social media site for 6 hours” during an 18-month period, starting December 22. . , 2021. This era ended in June.
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