Over the weekend President Trump captured all the attention of the media with a post on his Truth Social account about the 2020 election.
In the face of new evidence that Twitter interfered in the 2020 election to suppress a huge story that would hurt Joe Biden, Trump called for “the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” in order to have a 2020 election redo.
We posted this over the weekend, but I highlight it again as Ben Shapiro commented on it this morning.
Shapiro’s comments explain how Trump gave the media exactly what they wanted, which was a big distraction from the huge importance of the Twitter files in order to focus on their obsession with destroying Trump:
The #TwitterFiles are extremely important because they confirm what we always suspected: that Twitter’s middle management worked hand-in-glove with Democrats to shut down the Hunter Biden story in advance of the 2020 election.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 5, 2022
They had no basis for that shutdown, as we know – it wasn’t “Russian disinformation.” But as Yoel Roth’s comments suggest this week, Twitter’s Trust And Safety Board wasn’t about Trust or Safety, but about feelings.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 5, 2022
Roth said this week that he shut down the Babylon Bee because it was “dangerous.” He said that Trump was banned because of “trauma” experienced by the Twitter staff due to Trump’s followers. This is pathetic and censorious stuff.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 5, 2022
The FBI’s involvement is more subtle: by putting out broad statements about “Russian disinformation” (as Zuckerberg said) and relying on the hangover from the 2016 browbeating Big Tech received at the hands of Democrats, the FBI achieved its goal of suppressing the Biden story.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 5, 2022
So you can see why President Trump is pissed. He should be. The election was undoubtedly affected by suppression of a story damaging to his opponent.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 5, 2022
But Trump’s next move – calling for a suspension of the Constitution – is a perfect example of jumping on a rake with both feet.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 5, 2022
It allowed the Democrats and the media to avoid the #TwitterFiles story entirely by redirecting to Trump’s spoken authoritarianism. The Sunday shows were entirely Democrat-media activists smacking around Republicans about Trump’s comments.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 5, 2022
So instead of Americans being sympathetic to Trump’s claims of being jobbed, Americans received a firehose of rhetoric about how Trump is a threat to democracy – precisely the case Twitter’s censorship czars were making when they wrongly banned him!
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 5, 2022