Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, speaks to media representatives at the Tesla Gigafactory construction site in Grünheide near Berlin, September 3, 2020.
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Elon Musk on Friday flatly denied the statement of the former head of the President Donald TrumpTrump’s New Social Media Company That Trump Encouraged Musk To Buy Twitter.
“This is wrong,” Musk tweeted in response a New York Post article about that statement by Trump Media & Technology Group CEO Devin Nunes.
Musk, the head of Tesla and SpaceX.
Nunes, during a televised appearance Wednesday on Fox Business, said that Trump’s social media app, Truth Social, was “all because of Musk’s acquisition move”. Twitter and make it private with a $44 billion offer – a somewhat raised eyebrow statement because Twitter is a competitor to Truth Social.
“President Trump, basically before Elon Musk bought it, actually said go and buy it because you know our company’s goal is to build a community where everyone lives in a friendly family and safe environment”. congressman from California, in appearance.
Twitter banned Trump, who has become obsessed with users of the platform, in January 2021 for what the company considers “the risk of inciting further violence.”
The ban followed a riot in the Capitol on January 6, 2021 by a mob of Trump supporters who broke the President’s certification. Joe Bidenof the election.
Trump announced plans to launch Truth Social as a competitor to Twitter last fall and said his social media company would be publicly traded through an agreement with the so-called public. company check blank. Acquiring the digital world.
On April 25, Twitter accepted Musk’s offer to acquire the company, which is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval.
Nunes, in an interview on Fox Business, thinks that Trump’s intention to urge Musk to buy Twitter goes hand in hand with Truth Social’s mission.
“That’s why we’re encouraging Elon Musk to buy it, because someone has to keep confronting these tech tyrants,” Nunes said. “Donald Trump wants to make sure that the American people get their voices back and the internet is open and that’s what we’re doing.”
“And people like Elon Musk are doing what he’s doing, you know, we definitely support that,” Nunes said.
At the end of April, Trump to CNBC’s Joe Kernen that he won’t return to Twitter even if Musk takes over and reverses the ban on him.
“No, I’m not going back to Twitter,” said Trump, who had nearly 90 million followers on the platform before the ban.
“I’m going to be on Truth Social for the week. It’s on schedule. We’ve got a lot of people signed up,” he said.
“I like Elon Musk. I like him a lot. He’s an outstanding individual. We did a lot for Twitter while I was in the White House. I’m disappointed with the way I was treated by Twitter. I won’t be back on Twitter,” Trump said.
Statistics show that Trump, who as president had an average of 8 tweets a day in the second half of 2017 and the first half of 2018, steadily increased that average in the following years. He averaged 34 tweets a day during his last half year in office, before being banned.
On Truth Social, as of Friday, Trump has posted a so-called Truth or “Rechecked” post by another user combined less than 30 times in the past two months. Nearly all of those posts were made in the past week.
Correction: Devin Nunes is the CEO of Trump Media & Technology Corporation. An earlier version misspelled the company name.
