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Facebook Co-Founder, Mark Zuckerberg, says United States President, Donald Trump, is banned from Facebook and Instagram till the end of his tenure on January 20, 2020.
Zuckerberg said this in a post on Facebook while reacting to the violence perpetrated at the Capitol by Trump supporters who wanted to stop the US Congress from certifying the election which Joe Biden won.
The billionaire said for years Facebook and Instagram had allowed Trump to use the platform to say all sorts but this time, it was time to implement desperate measures since it had become obvious that Trump was instigating violence.
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United States’s National Guard’s Captain Tinashe T. Machona, the District of Columbia National Guard spokesperson last night became the voice of the United States military in the country’s coup attempt by the out-going United States President’s supporters.
About 1,100 troops from the D.C. National Guard and 650 from Virginia were deployed in Washington on Wednesday night, a National Guard spokesman said Wednesday night.
“The entire D.C. National Guard has been mobilized and is prepared to support law enforcement officers in various locations in the city to protect property, allowing federal and local law enforcement officers to do law-enforcement missions,” Capt. Tinashe T. Machona, a spokesman for the D.C. Guard, said in a statement.
Nigerians React To US Capitol Invasion, Lambast Trump
Scores of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol after breaching four layers of security and entering the buildings at a time when the US Congress was on its way to certify Joe Biden as the next US President.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Jan 07, 2021
A cross-section of Nigerians has lambasted the United States President, Donald Trump, over Wednesday’s invasion of the Capitol Building by his supporters.
Scores of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol after breaching four layers of security and entering the buildings at a time when the US Congress was on its way to certify Joe Biden as the next US President.
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Fact check: A sample of claims Trump, Republicans made on the day Capitol Hill was stormed
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United States President, Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump made a large number of claims in a rambling speech. His allies then made some more in Congress.
Both before and after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, Trump and a group of congressional Republicans repeated some of the same baseless election-related nonsense that has agitated much of the President’s base.