Great, Trump Is Finally Banned From Twitter but How Did It Take This Long? 670 Shares
Update, Jan. 8: On Friday evening, Twitter announced that it has permanently suspended Donald Trump s account due to the risk of further incitement of violence. The social media platform had previously put the president s account on a temporary 12-hour lock following the violent Capitol attack that took place on Jan. 6, determining that his recent tweets were highly likely to encourage and inspire people to replicate the criminal acts.
Original post, Jan. 6: Jan. 6 will forever be remembered not only as the day a pro-Trump mob violently stormed the Capitol in an act of domestic terrorism, but also as the day Donald Trump was finally banned from social media well, momentarily, at least. As the great JoJo famously said in her 2006 hit, however, it s just too little, too late, and the damage has already been done.
By Melanie Arter | January 7, 2021 | 7:04pm EST
White House acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney listens while US President Donald Trump speaks to the press before a meeting with Hungary s Prime Minister Viktor Orban in the Oval Office of the White House on May 13, 2019, in Washington, DC. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - U.S. Special Envoy for Northern Ireland Mick Mulvaney, who once served as President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, said Thursday that Trump’s legacy was ruined with the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol Building, which took place shortly after the president spoke to his supporters at the Save America Rally.
Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin, the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., suggested on Thursday that Donald Trump could be charged for his purported role in inciting the riot at the .
Trump s former chief of staff Mick Mulvaney resigns
From CNN s Kevin Liptak
Mick Mulvaney, then acting White House chief of staff, listens during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 2, 2020. Kevin Dietsch/UPI/Bloomberg/Getty Images
President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff and current special envoy to Northern Ireland, Mick Mulvaney, has resigned.
He told CNBC in an interview this morning that he called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last night and resigned. I called Mike Pompeo last night to let him know I was resigning from that. I can’t do it. I can’t stay, Mulvaney said in the interview.