The platform appears to have been built by Campaign Nucleus, a digital services company founded by Trump’s former campaign manager Brad Parscale. Facebook’s quasi-judicial moderation panel plans to announce whether the former president can return on Wednesday morning. Trump was banned from Facebook and his favorite posting platform Twitter in January after a right-wing mob stormed the US Capitol, leaving five people dead. The launch comes just a day before Facebook’s Oversight Board is set to announce whether Trump will be allowed back on Facebook and other Facebook-owned social media platforms like Instagram. Trump’s press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment Trump.” According to Fox News, Trump will “eventually” be able to communicate with his supporters directly, although it’s not clear how that will happen. Trump’s latest post is a video advertising his new platform, calling it “a place to speak freely and safely, straight from the desk of Donald J. Facebook did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Įven though the platform formally launched on Tuesday, there are posts dating back to March 24th. “Generally, sharing content from the website reference is permitted as long as the material does not otherwise the Twitter Rules,” a Twitter spokesperson told The Verge on Tuesday. If you value our reporting and you can right now, please help us dig out of the $100,000 hole we're starting our new budgeting cycle in with an always-needed and always-appreciated donation today.The new “platform” is effectively a blog styled like a generic version of Twitter It's time to fight like hell, as our namesake would tell us to do, for a democracy where minority rule cannot impose an extreme agenda, where facts matter, and where accountability has a chance at the polls and in the press. Donate We've never been very good at being conservative.
If you value our reporting and you can right now, please help us dig out of the $100,000 hole we're starting our new budgeting cycle in with an always-needed and always-appreciated donation today. But it also means we can't afford to come up short when it comes to scratching together the funds it takes to keep our team firing on all cylinders, and the truth is, we finished our budgeting cycle on June 30 about $100,000 short of our online goal. We've never been very good at being conservative.Īnd usually, that serves us well in doing the ambitious, hard-hitting journalism that you turn to Mother Jones for. But that’s what happens when you go to bat for Donald Trump, isn’t it?īy signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. That Giuliani instead nervously discussed his legal jeopardy doesn’t exactly exude confidence in his chances of escaping jail time-or how he’s going to pay for all of this. Those remarks came despite the fact that the interview, as Russo explained in the segment, was supposed to focus on the upcoming 20th anniversary of September 11th. “And if they do, they’re going to suffer the consequences in heaven, I’m not. “I’m more than willing to go to jail if they want to put me in jail,” he told NBC New York’s Melissa Russo in an interview last week. And despite his penchant for conspiracy theories and misinformation, it appears, as Haberman notes, that Giuliani does seem to understand the gravity of his precarious legal situation. Giuliani, who was recently suspended from practicing law in New York, is also facing a separate lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems over his relentless election lies. That’s particularly worrisome for Giuliani, whose legal defense fund has effectively failed to raise anything in his fight against the federal probe into whether he worked as an unregistered lobbyist for Ukrainian officials. Trump aides have been clear they see no mechanism for paying Giuliani’s legal bills that isn’t problematic for Trump, and they think Giuliani took actions a lawyer should have known were problematic, even if the client wanted it.
Here’s the latest on the apparent fallout between the two men:
But even as the money flows in, the former president is reportedly stiffing one of his fiercest allies and loyal political surrogates, Rudy Giuliani, as the former New York mayor becomes increasingly ensnared in a federal investigation that’s reportedly costing him millions in legal fees. Having raised more money than anyone else in the Republican Party so far this year, new filings show Donald Trump is flush with cash. Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter.