Donald Trump Uses POTUS Account To Accuse Twitter Of ‘Banning Free Speech’ After Being ‘Suspended’ From The Platform

Donald Trump has accused Twitter of “banning free speech” in a tweet from the POTUS account, hours after he was banned from the platform.

Earlier on Friday, the social media company permanently suspended the president’s @realDonaldTrump account and wiped all his old tweets.

The Twitter Safety account posted shortly afterwards, saying: “After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”

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It comes after Mr Trump was similarly banned from Facebook and Instagram following riots at the US Capitol on Wednesday.

In response, Mr Trump posted a series of tweets from the @POTUS account accusing the company of going “further and further in banning free speech”.

The rambling tweets were swiftly deleted but not before screengrabs were taken and circulated online.

The message continued: “Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my account from their platform, to silence me – and YOU, the 75,000,000 great…patriots who voted for me.”