Ben Ulansey
2 min readNov 21, 2022

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I remember reading that when it initially happened and it’s still a little confusing for me that those are the examples they chose to cite. I doubt your words or actions have ever or will ever result in such widespread chaos, so I imagine that standard won’t ever need to be applied to you lol.

As of october 2021 (which i realize is after january 6th), their policy on civic processes reads, “You may not use Twitter’s services for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in elections or other civic processes. This includes posting or sharing content that may suppress participation or mislead people about when, where, or how to participate in a civic process.” By that standard, would you agree that trump’s words were intended to influence turnout? On june 22nd, 2020 he tweeted “RIGGED 2020 ELECTION: MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WILL BE PRINTED BY FOREIGN COUNTRIES, AND OTHERS. IT WILL BE THE SCANDAL OF OUR
TIMES!” And then after he lost the election went on to say “He only won in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA. I concede NOTHING! We have a long way to go. This was a RIGGED
ELECTION!” And that’s hardly a full picture of how rampant his election denials and conspiracies were.

In the january 6th hearings, they even laid out the way that trump’s tweets from that day, on a minute by minute basis, caused the violence in the crowd to escalate. The “hang mike pence” chants started directly after he tweeted about how pence failed him. Testimonies revealed he was even aware that those supporters were armed. I have an impossible time believing that if a normal person had done what Trump did here, that they wouldn’t be serving time for it.

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Ben Ulansey
Ben Ulansey

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Writer, musician, entertainment enthusiast, and amateur lucid dreamer. I write memoirs, satires, reviews, philosophical treatises, and everything in between 🐙

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