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Biden officials worry Musk will allow Trump to return to Twitter
CNBC ^ | April 25, 2022 | Brian Schwartz

Posted on 04/25/2022 2:33:22 PM PDT by Trump20162020

White House officials and Democratic strategists are privately worrying about how Elon Musk’s $44 billion hostile takeover of Twitter will affect the 2024 presidential election — especially whether the billionaire will allow former President Donald Trump to return to the platform.

Officials within President Joe Biden’s administration are closely watching the deal, according to more than half a dozen advisors to Biden, including two administration officials. Some on Biden’s team are growing increasingly concerned the Tesla CEO will allow Trump and other Republican operatives who were banned from Twitter to return to the platform, these people said, asking not to be identified in order to speak freely about internal discussions among senior Democratic advisors.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; bidenfacists; bidenvoters; censorship; donaldtrump; elonmusk; internet; joebiden; keywordkarenabuse; musk; sidebarabuse; socialmedia; trump; twitter; zottherussiantrolls
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

...in your Faggity White Uniform ...

...you gotta ask me nicely.


121 posted on 04/26/2022 4:27:55 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Maris Crane

NOOooo...!!!

Place Joe's every utterance and reasoning on EVERY outlet.

For after all, he IS the President.



The history of the present King of Great Britain President of the United States of America is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.



122 posted on 04/26/2022 4:34:42 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
What an absolutely absurd society we live in these days.

Killing over 62 million unborn future American citizens in the last forty decades just might produce results like this.



123 posted on 04/26/2022 4:39:08 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Pollard

Great link, thanks.


124 posted on 04/26/2022 4:43:54 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Trump20162020

It’s a private company! They can unban him if they want!


125 posted on 04/26/2022 4:51:23 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Remember the 2020 backstabbers. No more RINOs ever!)
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To: Maris Crane

Any regime whose enemy is free speech, is an enemy of humanity.


126 posted on 04/26/2022 4:54:00 AM PDT by Lazamataz (My preferred pronouns are “monkey wrench” and “potato bin”.)
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To: Trump20162020

The swine in the Biden admin are probably diligently looking for some kinds of lawsuits to charge Musk with. Dragging people into court with bogus charges for bogus crimes is what they do best to harass people who anger them.

My sincere apology to swine I might add.


127 posted on 04/26/2022 4:55:44 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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To: consult
Once again, the playbook has already been written, by the example made of Parler after January 6. Within four days of the Capitol incursion, both Apple and Google banned Parler from their app stores, and Amazon cut off its web hosting services.

Elon Musk and the websites he owns are not going to be cut off from web hosting.

128 posted on 04/26/2022 5:59:49 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Trump20162020
If Musk is serious about Free Speech and about Twitter being a de facto "town square," then he has to allow Trump to return.

Now, the question is whether Trump will return to Twitter.

There are numerous "town squares" including his own Truth Social, but like it or not, Twitter is the biggest. I get that he would also want to post on his own platform, because once he gets geared up on Truth Social, he's going to draw a lot of users.

To me, the answer is obvious. Post on both, but post different content. I also like the idea of locking down comments on his Twitter posts. Just drop bombs and walk away. If you want to engage with Trump, you have to get a Truth account.

I think that should Trump return, he should do so at the exact moment some major event is taking place... something that Democrats and RINOs would want there to be extreme media focus... and then just start tweeting. It would absolutely suck all the oxygen in media rooms.

129 posted on 04/26/2022 6:14:00 AM PDT by TontoKowalski (You can call me "Dick.")
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To: Trump20162020; P-Marlowe

If twitter doesn’t restore trump, then musk is another swamp rat.

Otoh, if Trump supports twitter, does he hurt Truth Social?

Perhap some are frightened by truth social and want to divert Trump from it.


130 posted on 04/26/2022 7:15:16 AM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: Trump20162020
The article says they are worried about 'Trump and other Republican operatives'. Methinks it is much broader than that. That includes people like you and me. Yes, we are likely followers of Trump (although he won't go back to Twitter) but we get Trump's messages without Twitter. That sort of nullifies the argument that Trump is someone to worry about.

The most dangerous people to Democrats and the establishment are ordinary people. We are the ones implementing the precinct strategy. We are the one taking back school boards. We are taking back America from the bottom up.

131 posted on 04/26/2022 7:31:10 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: Trump20162020

Translation: “The Left worries that social media outlets won’t be able to censor their political opponents with as much ferocity as before.”


132 posted on 04/26/2022 7:33:00 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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133 posted on 04/26/2022 7:43:16 AM PDT by cdnerds (Vapingunderground)
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To: Elsie

Possibly. But it’s only been four decades (actually 5)!

The sad thing is if the commies had the babies, we’d probably be in the same state, if not worse (indoctrination by those commie parents, never mind how they started taking over everything beginning 50 years ago).


134 posted on 04/26/2022 7:45:36 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVds)
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To: palmer

Trump is in a tough spot because Twitter will be revitalized by Musk’s overhaul. He has to stick with his brand and it’s going to be a tough slog competing with Twitter.

I don’t do twitter, facebook, instagram, or any other of that stuff.

I joined Rumble a year ago when I deleted my youtube account, but I have to say, Rumble is just nowhere near being a viable youtube replacement. It’s just inferior in every way, and it hasn’t gotten any better in a year.


135 posted on 04/26/2022 8:38:37 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: Trump20162020

Whaddya scared about? The TRUTH before FACT? Posers.


136 posted on 04/26/2022 10:46:12 AM PDT by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: Trump20162020
Trump announced yesterday he will not return to Twitter and will begin actively posting to TRUTH SOCIAL within 7 days.

However, you can bet that every Trump TS post is going to be replicated far and wide all over Twitter.

I'm thinking of re-activating my Twitter account just so I can mirror the Trump TS posts over there.

137 posted on 04/26/2022 10:52:31 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (1.71 million plus active users on Truth Social)
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To: Trump20162020

Biden worrying about running in 2024 when he can barely make it thru the day? okey dokey


138 posted on 04/26/2022 10:54:28 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Trump20162020

Trump can post directions to his other sites.


139 posted on 04/26/2022 10:58:51 AM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: Trump20162020

You mean the real president will have another platform to ask the question of who is running the country? Barry?


140 posted on 04/26/2022 11:24:18 AM PDT by Son-Joshua (son-joshua)
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