FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk tour the Firing Room 4 after the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the Worldwide Area Station from NASA’s Kennedy Area Heart in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. Could 30, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Picture
WASHINGTON — Billionaire Elon Musk made clear on Thursday that although he desires Twitter to carry its everlasting ban on former President Donald Trump, that doesn’t imply he helps Trump in a potential 2024 presidential marketing campaign.
Musk, the world’s richest particular person and CEO of Tesla, is trying to shut a deal to amass Twitter.
Musk instructed a Monetary Instances convention on Tuesday that Twitter’s determination to ban Trump was “morally dangerous.”
He adopted up on these remarks in a tweet on Thursday night, stressing he doesn’t again Trump as a presidential candidate.
“Although I believe a much less divisive candidate can be higher in 2024, I nonetheless assume Trump needs to be restored to Twitter,” he stated.
Trump has stated he doesn’t need to return to Twitter, however as a substitute desires to construct up his personal Fact Social platform.
He was banned from Twitter completely in January 2021 due to the “danger of additional incitement of violence” following the storming of the U.S. Capitol, the corporate stated then. Trump is contemplating one other run for the presidency in 2024 after dropping his re-election bid in 2020.
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