Former President Donald Trump preceded his Truth Social station with respective focused connected Big Tech’s relation successful policing misinformation successful the runup to the 2020 election. | Brandon Bell/Getty Images
The White House connected Saturday responded to Donald Trump calling for the suspension of the Constitution to overturn the 2020 election, saying successful a statement, “You cannot lone emotion America erstwhile you win.”
“The Constitution brings the American radical unneurotic – careless of enactment – and elected leaders curse to uphold it,” White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said. “It’s the eventual monument to each of the Americans who person fixed their lives to decision self-serving despots that abused their powerfulness and trampled connected cardinal rights. Attacking the Constitution and each it stands for is anathema to the psyche of our nation, and should beryllium universally condemned.”
Earlier, successful a station connected his Truth Social network, the former president had called for the “termination” of law laws, portion citing conspiracy theories astir the statesmanlike predetermination helium lost.
“A Massive Fraud of this benignant and magnitude allows for the termination of each rules, regulations, and articles, adjacent those recovered successful the Constitution,” Trump wrote. “Our large ‘Founders’ did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!”
Trump’s station came hours aft Twitter’s caller proprietor Elon Musk revealed delicate deliberations astatine the societal media institution astir Hunter Biden’s idiosyncratic machine files successful the autumn of 2020.
The interior institution discussions offered penetration connected the interior disorder astatine Twitter arsenic it responded to the New York Post’s reporting connected then-presidential campaigner Joe Biden’s lad successful the closing weeks of the past statesmanlike campaign.
POLITICO has not independently verified the communications, which were fixed to Substack writer Matt Taibbi and posted Friday night. Musk precocious Friday suggested that different batch of revelations would onshore Saturday. As of this writing, different batch has not been released.
Trump, who has declared his candidacy for the GOP statesmanlike information successful 2024, preceded his Truth Social station with respective posts focused connected Big Tech’s relation successful policing misinformation successful the runup to the 2020 election.
He followed up with a station aboriginal Saturday saying, “UNPRECEDENTED FRAUD REQUIRES UNPRECEDENTED CURE!”
Christopher Cadelago contributed to this report.
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