Twitter says Trump is banned forever, period

Twitter CFO Ned Segal on Wednesday said that even if Donald Trump ran for election in the future and was elected to the presidency, he would not be given back his Twitter account.

“When you’re removed from the platform you’re removed from the platform, whether you’re a commentator, you’re a CFO, or you are a former or current public official,” Segal told CNBC.

Pressed to explain how the policy applies to Trump’s specific case, Segal said, “He was removed when he was president and there’d be no difference for anybody who’s a public official once they’ve been removed from the service.”

Trump was permanently removed from Twitter in January. The service cited his support and praise of the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, noting that inciting violence violates Twitter’s terms.

From the Feb. 10 edition of CNBC’s “Squawk Box”:

BECKY QUICK, CNBC: One more question for you, President Trump was banned, former President Trump was banned, if he came back, ran for office again and was elected president, would you allow him back on the platform?

 

NED SEGAL: So the way our policies work, when you’re removed from the platform you’re removed from the platform, whether you’re a commentator, you’re a CFO, or you are a former or current public official.

 

And so, remember, our policies are designed to make sure that people are not inciting violence, and if anybody does that, we have to remove them from the service and our policies don’t allow people to come back.

 

QUICK: So no?

 

SEGAL: He was removed when he was president and there’d be no difference for anybody who’s a public official once they’ve been removed from the service.

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.