Over the years, donald trump he was king twitter. former president United States of America perfected its use social networksetting it on fire based on the argument, political propaganda, mobilize its loyal base and avoid scrutiny by the press. The communication strategy has become the guideline to follow for the following matches: extreme right of the whole world. Now all this has turned against him.
This Monday, the Atlanta grand jury indicted the conservative tycoon and his 18 collaborators, up to 41. criminal charges alleged conspiracy to reverse electoral defeat in the 2020 elections Georgiawhich helped shift the presidential balance in his favour. Joe Biden. Prosecutors later presented a wealth of evidence to support the accusation. blame. Among them, 12 posts posted on Twitter — now renamed x— From @RealDonaldTrump, which has over 86.5 million followers.
The tweets selected by the prosecution were posted by an audience of followers between November 3, 2020, when the presidential elections were held, and January 6, 2021. runners stormy Capital city Attempts to change the result of the vote using violence. This riot It resulted in five deaths and multiple criminal investigations that could convict the former president. Two of the four charges against Trump are related to Trump’s alleged attempt to destroy the United States. democracy inside United States of America.
deliberate lies
On December 30, 2020, a month after the state officially confirmed Georgia’s narrow victory, he tweeted, “We now have far more votes than necessary to smash Georgia in the presidential race. A massive SCAM has happened.” democrats by just 11,779 votes.
This is one of a dozen tweets on which the accusation is based to show that Trump is deliberately lying. comploabout fake handling vote It has been rejected by all courts, including those of the States of the Republic.
Pressure and intimidation
Although the messages by himself they don’t have to be crimeThey could serve to show the prosecution that Trump pressured Georgia State officials to commit corrupt and illegal acts and helped him fraudulently impose his victory. “I spoke to the Minister of Foreign Affairs yesterday. brad raffensperger About voter fraud in Fulton County and Georgia. He didn’t answer or answer questions like “under-the-table” scams, smashing ballots, out-of-state “voters”, dead voters, and much more. You have no idea,” he tweeted on January 3, 2021.
Republican Party member Raffensperger also came under special pressure. In a phone call that was later leaked to the US media, Trump forced and even intimidated him to “find” the votes needed to paint Georgia red and tip the state out of the conservative camp. Former president also attacked state governor Brian Kemp“stupid” and “clown” and former deputy governor Geoff Duncan.
Among the tweets selected by the prosecution are those in which Trump put pressure on his then-right-hand man, the former vice president. Mike Pence. “The states now want to fix their votes that they know are based on wrongdoing and fraud, and the corruption process has never been approved by the legislature. All Mike Pence has to do is send them back to the states AND WE WON. Do it Mike, time for extreme courage!” Trump issued it on January 6, 2021, hours before the storming of the Capitol.
Private messages
Twitter supported Trump, but now it can help bury him. It was learned that the Privy Council led by the Privy Council was learned last Wednesday. jack smith In January, he managed to get an order to register the former president’s account, which allowed him to investigate all his public activities as well as private messages he sent via Facebook. application and even deleted and left in draft. Supreme Court made a decision penalty fee $350,000 to the social network owner, Elon Musk, because it took so long to comply with his decision justice.
The District Court of Columbia issued this order to the prosecution and forbade Trump from providing information about the search, finding “reasonable grounds” to believe that the boss could “destroy evidence” and “compromise the ongoing investigation.” The former president’s lawyers will receive this data and will be able to use it to defend their clients. judgment accused of manipulating election results.
After the attack on the Capitol, Twitter decided to permanently block Trump’s account. Although Musk reversed that decision in November and reinstated the profile, the former president did not continue his activities and remained loyal to himself. RealSocialconservative social network under his control.