The social media director for President Trump’s reelection campaign tweeted Thursday morning that the official Twitter account for the Trump campaign was suspended.
“Twitter has suspended @TeamTrump for posting a video calling Joe Biden a liar who has been ripping off our country for years, as it relates to the @nypost article,” Mike Hahn tweeted.
Twitter has suspended @TeamTrump for posting a video calling Joe Biden a liar who has been ripping off our country for years, as it relates to the @nypost article.
— Mike Hahn (@mikehahn_) October 15, 2020
19 days out from the election. pic.twitter.com/Z9FFzridyr
Hahn said the video was related to a Wednesday New York Post story about emails that were allegedly discovered on a laptop that belonged to the Democratic presidential nominee’s son Hunter Biden. Among other things, the report alleges that he set up a meeting between then-Vice President Joe Biden and a senior official from the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.
After the story began circulating across social media, Twitter and Facebook took steps to decelerate its spread. Twitter blocked posts that linked to the story and briefly locked the New York Post out of its account. Facebook reduced the distribution of the story and said that the story would be fact-checked by a third party.
Twitter’s decision to block the Team Trump account comes less than three weeks before Election Day.
The campaign account is far from the first account connected to the Trump administration or campaign to be suspended — nor is it the first time Team Trump was suspended. Last night, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was locked out of her personal account after she shared the New York Post story.
BREAKING: Twitter has locked the personal account of White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany for sharing news Democrats don’t like. pic.twitter.com/eR8HhkgqVY
— Trump War Room – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) October 14, 2020
Twitter has locked out @TeamTrump for posting video of clips of Joe Biden lying about never speaking to Hunter about foreign business deals.
— Tim Murtaugh – Download the Trump 2020 app today! (@TimMurtaugh) October 15, 2020
Includes snips of @nypost exposing the lies.
Biden doesn’t dispute the authenticity of the docs.
STILL protecting Biden from bad story. pic.twitter.com/VGJPYGiwlU
So now @Twitter and @jack are blocking access to a government website…all to protect Joe Biden.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 15, 2020
This is not only dangerous and corrupt, it's clear election interference!!! https://t.co/fnOxLiU4cJ pic.twitter.com/dzjyD7LPMz
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