Truth Social, the sad social media company not even Donald Trump’s heart is in, was founded in response to the ex-president’s banishment from Twitter after he incited and then doubled down on a violent insurrection. According to the company itself, the network “encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating on the basis of political ideology,” and presumably, if an ex-president wanted to, say, provoke a riot over an election outcome he didn’t like, that could be okay. What is apparently not okay? Making fun of Truth Social’s CEO or breathing a word about the January 6 hearings, which, coincidentally, are making Trump look really, really bad.
Variety reports that a number of Truth Social users have found themselves suspended for posting about the proceedings, which kicked off last Thursday night with a prime-time event in which Trump’s own daughter said she knew her father had lost the 2020 election. “My Truth Social account was just permanently suspended for talking about the January 6th Committee hearings,” Travis Allen, who describes himself as an information security analyst, wrote Thursday night, alongside a screenshot of the suspension message from the company. Jack Cocchiarella, another user, tweeted on Friday: “I was suspended from Truth Social for posting about the January 6th hearing last night. Donald Trump is scared of free speech.” As Max Burns, a staffer for Democratic New York State assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, wrote, “Apparently free speech has its limits even in Trumpland.”
Vanity Fair has reached out to Trump Media & Technology Group, Truth Social’s parent company, for comment, though, obviously, it’s in no way difficult to see why the social network whose name literally has the word truth in it would want to suppress exactly that. Despite the fact that the entire country lived through the events of January 6, the hearings, which continued on Monday, have been completely devastating for Trump. In addition to playing horrifying never-before-seen footage of the graphic violence that took place that day and featuring testimony from one of the police officers who was there—who described the scene as “carnage” and said she was “slipping in people’s blood”—the proceedings have shown multiple members of Trump’s inner circle testifying that there was absolutely no evidence that the election had been stolen and that Trump was told this many, many times.
Despite the insistence by the ex-president and his allies that the hearings are a partisan exercise that Americans should simply ignore, on Thursday evening Jason Miller—who is all in on Trump running in 2024—said in a taped, under oath deposition that several days after the 2020 election, the campaign’s lead data person told Trump “in pretty blunt terms that he was going to lose.” On Monday, we also heard former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien—who was supposed to appear in person but reportedly canceled last minute due to his wife going into labor—say in a taped deposition that Trump had no business declaring victory— on November 4 or at any other point. Chris Stirewalt, who worked for Fox News at the time of the election—and called Arizona for Joe Biden—said the same.
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But perhaps no one has gotten more airtime to date than former attorney general Bill Barr—who, as a reminder, was one of Trump’s most loyal stooges during his time at the DOJ and has said he hates Democrats so much that he’d vote for Trump again (!)—when it comes to calling bullshit on the ex-president’s election-fraud claims.
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In other words, not a single person the committee has presented—including the ones whose loyalty to Trump runs disturbingly deep—has backed the lies Trump spread that led to the attack on the Capitol. In fact, they may have helped the panel show criminal intent, according to MSNBC chief legal correspondent Ari Melber.
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Criminality, of course, will be something for Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice to take up, if they choose to. But in the meantime, you can probably understand why Truth Social would like to act as though none of this is happening.
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