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Trump in court against Twitter, speaking of the Taliban

Former United States President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit seeking to have Twitter authorities return the account. The news agency Reuters reported that Trump had sought a stay on the initial Twitter decision in the Florida court application.

The former US president cited the Taliban as an argument against Twitter’s decision in the petition. His plea said Twitter authorities allowed the Taliban to regularly tweet about the news of their victory across Afghanistan. On the other hand, his tweets have been refined by calling it ‘misleading information’ during his presidential election campaign.

Twitter, the filing argues, “exercises a degree of power and control over political discourse in this country that is immeasurable, historically unprecedented, and profoundly dangerous to open democratic debate.”

The suit notes that the Taliban, in power in Afghanistan now and still considered a terrorist organization by the United States, is allowed to have a Twitter account.

That account appeared on August 8 and “over the weeks that followed Twitter allowed the Taliban to tweet regularly about their military conquests and victories across Afghanistan.”

Banning Trump but not the Taliban amounts to “ludicrous incongruity” on the part of Twitter, the suit alleges.

Twitter and other social media banned the former president from their platforms after a mob of pro-Trump supporters assaulted the US Congress building on January 6.

They were riled up by a speech hours earlier in which Trump hammered away at his false claims that the election he lost to Joe Biden was stolen from him.

Twitter said at the time that Trump tweets leading up to his removal violated its policy against glorifying violence and were likely to cause people to mimic what happened on January 6.

In the filing Friday in a Florida federal court, Trump argued that the platform that served as his main megaphone for reaching his millions of conservative followers was “coerced” into suspending him by members of the US Congress.

At the time he was banned, Trump had more than 88 million Twitter followers.

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