Elon Musk reinstates Trump’s Twitter account; Trump says he has no interest in returning

Elon Musk has said that former US President Donald Trump would be allowed back on Twitter after the social media platform's new owner ran a poll in which a narrow majority of 15 million voters supported the move.

“The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated. Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” Musk said in a tweet on Saturday, quoting the Latin phrase meaning “the voice of the people is the voice of God.”

Trump's once-blocked Twitter account reappeared on the platform minutes after company owner Musk announced he was lifting the 22-month suspension on the former president over alleged incitement of violence.

Trump was permanently banned from Twitter nearly two years ago, following the January 6, 2021 protest march when Trump supporters occupied the US Capitol while lawmakers were in the process of reviewing the certification of state electors which indicated Joe Biden's victory. Some Trump supporters had hoped that this process could have resulted in some of the electors being disqualified, thus overturning the outcome of the presidential election.

“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,” Twitter said at the time.

Slightly over 15 million Twitter users voted in the poll with 51.8% voting in favor of reinstatement.

Trump says he has no interest in returning to Twitter 

Trump on Saturday he sees “no reason” for returning to Twitter.

"I don't see any reason for it," the former president said via video when asked whether he planned to return to Twitter by a panel at the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting.

The former president said he would stick with his new platform Truth Social, the app developed by his Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) startup, which he said had better user engagement than Twitter and was doing "phenomenally well".

Trump’s account became visible again on Saturday, including his past tweets.

The former president similarly suggested in a Truth Social post on Saturday he wouldn’t return to Twitter.

“Vote now with positivity, but don’t worry, we aren’t going anywhere. Truth Social is special!” Trump wrote.

Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said, "Trump should have never been banned in the first place."

"Interesting it took a poll to decide to reinstate him. My personal account is still permanently banned for 'covid misinformation.' What does it take to reinstate my account? Freedom of speech matters," she added. 

This came just days after Trump announced that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

“In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump told a crowd gathered at Mar-a-Lago, his waterfront estate in Florida on Tuesday night.

Big Tech and US monopolies

The push to break up Big Tech. The Big Tech companies; Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon. And before they came Microsoft.

Trump praised Musk and said he had always liked him. But Trump also said Twitter suffered from bots, and fake accounts and that the problems it faced were "incredible".

Musk first said in May he planned to reverse the ban on Trump, and the timing of any return by Trump was closely watched by many of Twitter's advertisers.

While Trump welcomed Musk’s takeover of Twitter three weeks ago, he initially said he plans to stay on Truth Social.

“I am staying on Truth,” the former president said. “I like it better. I like the way it works. I like Elon, but I’m staying on Truth.”

Trump has accused Twitter and Facebook of wanting to help Joe Biden’s campaign by enforcing policies that restrict users' ability to share a New York Post story that contained alleged details of Hunter Biden’s business dealings with a Ukrainian energy company, also saying the former vice president had met with an adviser of the company.

“Now, Big Tech — you see what’s going on with Big Tech? — is censoring these stories to try and get Biden out of this impossible jam. He’s in a big jam,” Trump said.

"He and his family are crooked and they were caught, they got caught," he added.

Journalist: Dems trying to maintain a stranglehold on the flow of information

Unable to control the flow of information on social and alternative media, the US Democratic Party is attempting to engage in censorship, according to journalist Glenn Greenwald.

Pulitzer Prize-winner American investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald has revealed in an article that an axis of the CIA, Big Tech and the DNC-allied wing of the corporate media spread an absolute lie in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election to help Biden win the vote.

He wrote that “the CIA, Big Tech, the liberal wing of the corporate media and the Democratic Party” censored and suppressed “a series of major reports about then-presidential frontrunner Biden.

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