Almost nine months after the permanent ban that had exiled him from social media, former President Donald Trump asked a Florida federal judge to force Twitter to temporarily reactivate his personal account on the platform.
A request for a preliminary injunction against the social network, with which the Republican tries to definitively regain possession of the profile, was presented on Friday afternoon in Miami, Florida. Meanwhile, the former president is demanding a temporary restoration of his personal account, arguing that the decision to cancel him in January was made under pressure from his political rivals in Congress. The platform, which has not yet commented on the affair, had deleted the profile on January 8, two days after the deadly assault on Capitol Hill, carried out by supporters of the former premier to prevent official confirmation of the opponent’s victory. , Joe Biden. Before that, Trump had used his account, with over 88 million followers, to fuel malaise and falsely report electoral fraud.
Twitter’s decision, the former prime minister’s lawyer wrote in the filed document, shows a “level of power and control over the political discourse of this country that is immense and historically unprecedented, as well as profoundly dangerous to ensure a democratic debate. “.
Trump then accuses him of being improperly censored during his presidency, when his tweets were removed because they contained “misleading information” or because they violated company rules against “glorification of violence.”