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   Leroy N. Soetoro to All   
   'Twitter Files' show world leaders who i   
   08 Jan 23 19:52:00   
   
   XPost: alt.politics.media, alt.politics.trump, sac.politics   
   XPost: alt.politics.democrats, talk.politics.guns, alt.politics.homosexuality   
   From: democrat-criminals@mail.house.gov   
      
   https://nypost.com/2022/12/12/twitter-files-show-world-leaders-who-   
   incited-violence-stayed-while-trump-got-boot/   
      
   Twitter allowed several world leaders to remain on the platform despite   
   clearly promoting violence both before and after banning former President   
   Donald Trump in the aftermath of last year’s Capitol riot, the fifth   
   installment of the “Twitter Files” revealed on Monday.   
      
   Trump, now 76, was suspended on Jan. 8, 2021 after tweeting: “The   
   75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and   
   MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future.   
   They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or   
   form!!!”   
      
   Independent journalist Bari Weiss reported, based on Twitter’s internal   
   communications, that the Trump ban was pushed by both low-level staffers   
   and executives like Vijaya Gadde — then the site’s head of legal, policy   
   and trust — based on a generous reading of its policy against   
   “glorification of violence” that argued “American Patriots” referred to   
   the Capitol rioters.   
      
   However, the social media giant took a far different approach in its   
   treatment of Trump than it did with the leaders of other countries who   
   fired off far more incendiary posts.   
      
   In June 2018, Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted in English: “#Israel   
   is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be   
   removed and eradicated: it is possible and it will happen.”   
      
      
   “Twitter neither deleted the tweet nor banned the Ayatollah,” Weiss   
   pointed out on Twitter.   
      
   Lest the platform’s inaction be considered an oversight, a Twitter   
   representative told members of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, in July   
   2020 that Khamenei’s tweets calling for the destruction of the Jewish   
   state were OK under the platform’s policy.   
      
   “We have an approach to world leaders that presently [says] direct   
   interactions with fellow public figures, comments on political issues of   
   the day, or foreign policy saber-rattling on military and economic issues   
   are generally not in violation of our Twitter rules,” the flack said at   
   the time.   
      
   Weiss then highlighted an October 2020 tweet from former Malaysian Prime   
   Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who wrote that Muslims “have a right” to “kill   
   millions of French people.”   
      
   “Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people   
   for the massacres of the past,” Mohamad tweeted in response to a terror   
   attack in which an Islamist assailant killed three people in a church in   
   the Mediterranean city of Nice.   
      
   Twitter deleted the tweet for “glorifying violence,” according to Weiss,   
   but Mohamad was neither suspended nor banned for his violent rhetoric.   
      
   Similarly, in June 2021, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari had a tweet   
   warning Biafran separatists of bloodshed deleted by the company — but he,   
   too, was allowed to stay on.   
      
   “Those of us in the fields for 30 months, who went through the war, will   
   treat them in the language they understand,” wrote Buhari, referencing the   
   conflict from 1967 to 1970 that left millions dead due to war and famine.   
      
   In October 2021, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abuy Ahmed tweeted a call for   
   “citizens to take up arms against the Tigray region,” that was neither   
   removed nor netted him a ban.   
      
   Even when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government “threatened to   
   arrest Twitter employees in India, and to incarcerate them for up to seven   
   years” after the social media company restored the accounts of hundreds of   
   Modi critics, Twitter did not ban the prime minister.   
      
   Last month, new Twitter CEO Elon Musk reinstated Trump’s account after a   
   two-year ban.   
      
   However, the former president has not returned to the platform, preferring   
   to post messages and statements on Truth Social, one of several   
   alternatives to Twitter that have sprung up in recent years.   
      
      
   --   
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   recover with no after effects.   
      
   No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.   
   Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.   
      
   Donald J. Trump, cheated out of a second term by fraudulent "mail-in"   
   ballots.  Report voter fraud: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov   
      
   Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden   
   fiasco, President Trump.   
      
   Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the   
   The World According To Garp.  Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood   
   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
   President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed   
   dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.   
      
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