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Last week, in the trial of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, prosecutor Andrew DeFilippis asked ex-campaign manager Robby Mook about the decision to share with a reporter a bogus story about Donald Trump and Russia’s Alfa Bank. Mook answered by giving up his onetime boss. “I discussed it with Hillary,” he said, describing his pitch to the candidate: “Hey, you know, we have this, and we want to share it with a reporter… She agreed to that.”
In a country with a functioning media system, this would have been a huge story. Obviously this isn’t Watergate, Hillary Clinton was never president, and Sussmann’s trial doesn’t equate to prosecutions of people like Chuck Colson or Gordon Liddy. But as we’ve slowly been learning for years, a massive fraud was perpetrated on the public with Russiagate, and Mook’s testimony added a substantial piece of the picture, implicating one of the country’s most prominent politicians in one of the more ambitious disinformation campaigns we’ve seen.
I'll go against the grain here and say "No". I also believe they should have never banned Trump either. We have to be very careful of banning people's right to speech, especially public figures like Trump and Hillary. This is part of the reason that Elon is taking over Twitter.
But if they ban one person for "misinformation", then they should ban anyone who does it.
As I recall, Twitter changed their rules after there was a raft of misinformation that had been posted for years.
Trump posted some, as did Hillary, and the Russians, and several million other members, some domestic, some abroad.
Twitter gave Trump a probationary block, but he got a second chance and blew it. If Hillary avoided that mistake, so what? So did others by the millions.
It was all fair warning. Most heeded it. Fewer didn't and got blocked permanently.
Since they're both out of the picture now, where's the need? It's beating a dead horse to me.
Clinton is all done as a contender, and so is Trump. He won't go back on Twitter now that he has his own platform- to do so takes money out of his pocket, and he'll never be blocked on Truth Central.
Last edited by banjomike; 06-16-2022 at 04:43 PM..
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