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The ex-president donald trump published on Friday in Facebook for the first time since January 6, 2021, the day protesters attacked the United States Capitol, the same day that Youtube it also announced that it was lifting its restrictions against Trump.
Trump sent a terse message in all capital letters announcing: “I’m back!”, accompanying it with a brief clip taken from CNN showing Trump on the night he was elected president during which he said: “I’m sorry I made you wait. complicated business. Complicated.”
Then an electoral-type poster appears in which he promotes his candidacy for the next presidential elections: “Trump 2024, Make America Great Again.”
The former president’s Facebook and Instagram accounts had been banned for two years after the riots at the Capitol
Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were restored in early February after Trump’s 2024 campaign asked Meta, the platforms’ parent company, to unlock his Facebook account.
Trump’s posts on January 6, 2021 included election lies and an attack on then-Vice President Mike Pence, before calling on the protesters for peace. The House select committee that investigated on January 6 used several of the former president’s social media posts from that day to show his inaction as the violence unfolded.
Assault on the Capitol and veto on social networks
Trump was banned from the main social networks -Facebook, Twitter and YouTube- after his followers’ assault on the Capitol, and then he created his Truth social network, to continue promoting his ideas on a social network he owns.
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