(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) According to the recently released Twitter files, Michelle Obama, former first lady and aspiring future president, was personally involved in getting former President Donald Trump banned from the platform in 2020, the Western Journal reported.
The former first lady posted a hysterical statement in the wake of the J6 rally.
Like all of you, I’ve been feeling so many emotions since yesterday. I tried to put my thoughts down here: pic.twitter.com/9xzRvrpk7y
— Michelle Obama (@MichelleObama) January 7, 2021
“Now is the time for Silicon Valley companies to stop enabling this monstrous behavior — and go even further than they have already by permanently banning this man from their platforms and putting in place policies to prevent their technologies from being used by the nation’s leaders to fuel insurrection,” she wrote her statement.
“And if we have any hope of improving this nation, now is the time for swift and serious consequences for the failure of leadership that led to yesterday’s shame,” she added.
Journalist Michael Shellenberger in the fourth “Twitter Files” release noted Obama’s old message and its influence over upper-level Twitter execs, most of whom were radical leftists at that time.
“But after the events of Jan 6, the internal and external pressure on Twitter CEO @jack grows. Former First Lady @michelleobama, tech journalist @karaswisher, @ADL, high-tech VC @ChrisSacca, and many others, publicly call on Twitter to permanently ban Trump,” he wrote.
He also noted that Twitter had radically altered its former policy, and even its attitude toward Trump in particular.
For years, Twitter had resisted calls to ban Trump.
“Blocking a world leader from Twitter,” it wrote in 2018, “would hide important info… [and] hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions.”https://t.co/qaqklHOHjc
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) December 10, 2022
“Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial Tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate,” the Twitter Public Policy account wrote back in 2018.
“It would also not silence that leader, but it would certainly hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions.”
Shellenberger additionally noted that former Twitter CEO and founder Jack Dorsey was on vacation at the time, so the decision to ban Trump was made by Twitter Head of Trust and Safety Yoel Roth and former Head of Legal, Policy, & Trust Vijaya Gadde, both of whom are radical progressives who believed that Trump was a Nazi.
