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by Tyler Durden
Friday, Jan 08, 2021 - 20:01

Update (2100ET): At 8:29pm ET, Trump - having been suspended from his personal twitter account - decided to use the official twitter account of the US president, @POTUS, saying that "Twitter employees have coordinated with the Democrats and the Radical Left in removing my accounts from their platform to silence me - and YOU, the 75,000,000 great patriots who voted for me." Trump then said that "Twitter may be a private company, but without the government's gift of Section 230 they would not exist for long."

Trump, who has yet to create his own Parler account, continued: "We have been negotiating with various other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future."

"We will not be SILENCED! Twitter is not about FREE SPEECH. They are all about promoting a Radical Left platform where some of the most vicious people in the world are allowed to speak freely" the president boomed.

He concluded with an all caps "STAY TUNED!"

Screen grab of tweet here..

https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2021-01-08%20(10).jpg?itok=Pvunn99R

Just moments later, twitter deleted all of the above tweets from the @POTUS account. The last remaining tweet on that account which at 33.4 million has a little over a third of Trump's original 88 million followers, is from December 23.

The deletion was followed by a tweet from none other than Trump's nemesis, Hillary Clinton, who gloated that Trump's account has indeed been deleted as she urged him to do just before she lost the 2016 election to him.

✔️ https://t.co/lQmZvooFYW

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 9, 2021

Shortly after, Trump also tweeted using his campaign, @TeamTrump account. Literally 10 seconds later the account was suspended.

10 seconds apart pic.twitter.com/NHyPOOz5wn

— 𝑅𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑠 (@MrMeritology) January 9, 2021

The deletion was confirmed by the TeamTrump social media director:

According to VOA reporter Steve Herman, a twitter spokesperson said that "As we've said, using another account to try to evade a suspension is against our rules. We've permanently suspended the @TeamTrump account."

There was more: just before 10pm, Trump campaign digital director Gary Coby tweeted Dan Scavino to use his account for Trump... and was suspended moments later:

That was quick!

Trump campaign digital director tweeted @DanScavino to use his account for Trump and was swiftly suspended: https://t.co/muQkbPweFB pic.twitter.com/cyEeDTkoi6

— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) January 9, 2021

Trump's son, Donald Jr., - whose twitter account has surprisingly not been banned yet - tweeted "Free Speech Is Under Attack! Censorship is happening like NEVER before! Don’t let them silence us. Sign up at DONJR.COM to stay connected!"

Free Speech Is Under Attack! Censorship is happening like NEVER before! Don’t let them silence us. Sign up at https://t.co/835Eak6Ghi to stay connected!

If I get thrown off my social platforms I’ll let you know my thoughts and where I end up. pic.twitter.com/bO7wbfWWVr

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 9, 2021

The night is not over yet, and as the great purge continues, nobody knows how many more voices will be silenced.

And while we wait, it appears that America's most popular talk show host in history, terminal cancer patient and close friend of Donald Trump, did what so many others will do in the coming days, and nuked his own account.