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Donald Trump was banned from Twitter in January 2021. The former US president has already taken legal action against this. In the meantime, another judicial document has been published in which Trump again makes serious accusations. This is reported by the American newspaper ‘Politico’.

The Republican therefore accuses Twitter and the US government of withholding information about the corona pandemic and the 2020 elections and thereby violating the First Amendment. The 96-page lawsuit, filed Monday in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, alleges that Twitter and the government have been working to “suppress opinions and information about matters of vital importance to Americans.”

These include the origins of the pandemic, the effectiveness of the Covid vaccines, the validity of the results of the 2020 presidential election and the legality of documents from a hard drive that allegedly belonged to Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden. “Politics”.

“Sometimes crazy ideas turn out to be true”

The order also compared Trump to Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, who was persecuted by the Catholic Church for believing — now confirmed — that the Earth revolves around the sun. This view contradicted that of Christianity.

“Most people once thought this was a crazy idea, and many still think it is. But sometimes crazy ideas turn out to be true.” “The Earth does indeed revolve around the sun, and it was Hunter Biden, not Russian disinformation agents, who delivered a laptop full of incriminating evidence to a repair shop in Delaware,” Trump’s attorneys wrote, according to the report.

“Galileo spent his last days under house arrest for spreading heretical ideas, and thousands of dissidents are now being arrested or killed by despotic governments bent on suppressing ideas they disapprove. But that’s not the American way,” Trump’s lawyers said.

Trump speaks of voter fraud

The indictment is related to a series of class action lawsuits that Trump has filed over the past year against several social media giants. He accuses Twitter, Facebook and YouTube of censoring him and his followers. The three platforms had suspended Trump’s accounts in January 2021, just before the end of his term.

The trigger was the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 by Trump supporters – and his condolences to the attackers. He also claimed without any evidence that his victory in the November 2020 presidential election was stolen by fraud. He raised the mood in the country. Twitter, where the former US president was followed by more than 80 million users, was his main communication platform until then.

In May, a judge dismissed Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter. He believed that the 9th Circuit precedent precludes the kind of action Trump is taking against private parties that allegedly exercise censorship at the behest of the government.

The question is whether Trump will return to Twitter

The new court document was released on the eve of a supposedly important day for Trump: During a performance in Ohio on November 15, the Republican announced a “very big announcement.” He may announce his candidacy for president in 2024.

The lawsuit also comes after Trump hired a new attorney on his team to lead the lawsuit against the social media companies: Former 9th Circuit Chief Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski resigned in 2017 amid investigations into alleged sexual misconduct.

It remains to be seen whether Trump will return to Twitter after Elon Musk takes over Twitter. The tech billionaire had criticized Trump’s permanent ban in May as “morally wrong and just plain stupid”. Trump recently confirmed that he would remain with his own agency, Truth Social. “I like it better here,” said the ex-president. “I like Elon, but I’m sticking to the truth.” However, its presence on the platform could draw more of Trump’s attention to a possible presidential candidacy.

(t-online, lw)