SAN FRANCISCO, United States —
Donald Trump’s Twitter account was reinstated on Saturday after the platform’s new
owner Elon Musk ran a poll in which a narrow majority of voters supported the
move, days after the former US president announced another White House bid.
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Trump was banned from the platform early last year
for his role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by a mob of his
supporters seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“The people have spoken. Trump will be reinstated,”
Musk tweeted, shortly after the 24-hour poll ended.
“Vox Populi, Vox Dei,” he added, repeating a Latin
adage he posted on Friday meaning “the voice of the people is the voice of
God”.
More than 15 million people — out of 237 million
daily Twitter users — voted on whether to reinstate the controversial profile,
with 51.8 percent in favor and 48.2 percent against.
Trump, who had more than 88 million users when his
account was suspended, reveled in using Twitter as a mouthpiece during his
presidency, posting policy announcements, attacking political rivals and
communicating with supporters.
Musk’s poll asked for a simple “yes” or “no”
response to the statement “Reinstate former President Trump”, which the
billionaire Twitter boss posted on Friday.
“Fascinating to watch Twitter Trump poll!” Musk
mused Saturday morning in a blast of tweets from the controversial and hard-charging
new owner of the one-to-many messaging platform.
He has posed similar polls in the past, asking
followers last year if he should sell stock in his electric car company Tesla.
Following that poll, he sold more than $1 billion in shares.
‘I have Truth Social’
Trump said on Saturday he
would not return to the popular platform but instead remain on his own network,
Truth Social, launched after he was banned from Twitter.
Appearing via video at a gathering of the Republican
Jewish Coalition in
Las Vegas, Trump said he welcomed the poll and was a fan of
Musk, but appeared to reject any return.
“He did put up a poll and it was very
overwhelming... but I have something called... Truth Social.”
As to whether he would return to the platform, he
said: “I don’t see it because I don’t see any reason for it.”
Trump had not posted to Twitter by late Saturday,
though he did share a series of unrelated messages on his Truth Social account,
including opinion articles criticizing the US Justice Department’s appointment of
a special counsel this week to investigate his role in the Capitol attack.
Musk has reinstated other banned accounts, including
that of comedian Kathy Griffin, which had been taken down after she
impersonated him on the site.
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