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Trump applauds Musk’s Twitter takeover, says the platform that banned him ‘is now in sane palms’

Elon Musk, left, and Wendell P. Weeks, heart, pay attention to President Donald Trump as he meets with trade leaders on the White Area on Monday January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC.

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Twitter’s most renowned banned person, former President Donald Trump, applauded the platform’s new possession beneath billionaire Elon Musk, who up to now mentioned he does not imagine in everlasting suspensions.

“I’m more than happy that Twitter is now in sane palms, and can not be run via Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs that in reality hate our nation,” Trump wrote on his Fact Social account, a Twitter-like platform run via the Trump Media & Generation Workforce.

The previous president didn’t cope with the potential of a go back to the platform. Musk has mentioned he would raise Trump’s everlasting suspension, which Twitter put in within the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, rise up on the U.S. Capitol after its management feared additional violence may stem from his tweets. Musk mentioned he favors extra transient measures.

Trump, for his phase, mentioned months in the past that he would no longer go back to the platform although Musk reversed the ban. He started his message Friday via touting Fact Social and claiming with out proof or specifics that the platform “had larger numbers” closing week “than all different platforms, together with TikTok, Twitter, Fb, and the remainder.”

“Twitter should now paintings arduous to rid itself of all the bots and pretend accounts that experience harm it so badly,” Trump wrote on Friday. “It’ll be a lot smaller, however higher.”

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