President Trump is not holding back any punches any more….
And he seems to be saving some of his biggest indignation for Mark Zuckerberg.
Spot on, if you ask me.
I will never forget right before the 2020 Election when we had a community of 1.5 MILLION people on Facebook and we were getting the truth out to MILLIONS of people each week….and then overnight Zuckerberg just deleted us!
No explanation, no warning, not even a claim we violated any rule.
Just poof — deleted!
So I despise this man, and so does President Trump who just said this:
“We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison, as well as others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election.”
NEW: Donald Trump has a message for Mark Zuckerberg in his upcoming book “Save America.”
Trump’s… pic.twitter.com/4QYl3ObYQh
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) August 28, 2024
“We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison, as well as others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election.”
NEW: Donald Trump has a message for Mark Zuckerberg in his upcoming book “Save America.”
Trump’s remark has surfaced in the aftermath of Zuckerberg’s letter to Congress expressing regret for caving to Biden-Harris administration pressure to censor stories.
One of those stories was the authentic Hunter Biden laptop story, which many voters say would have changed their votes in the 2020 election.
Last month, Trump also threatened Zuckerberg: “ELECTION FRAUDSTERS at levels never seen before, and they will be sent to prison for long periods of time. We already know who you are. DON’T DO IT! ZUCKERBUCKS, be careful.”
While Zuckerberg claims that he is no longer spending money to influence this upcoming election, there are reports that millions of dollars have already been distributed in his name to localities in states.
As reported by
@JusttheNews
, the Zuckerberg-funded CTCL announced its 2024 Rural and Nonmetro Election Infrastructure Grant Program, which made $2.5 million of grant funding available to 20 states.The grant applications were available in the following U.S. states: Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Vermont, Washington, and Wyoming.
Does that sound to anyone else like President Trump has already laid the trap and is just waiting to collect the evidence?
I still wonder if he caught them all in 2020 as well and has been holding onto that evidence….
Here is more, from Sky News:
Donald Trump has threatened to imprison Mark Zuckerberg if the Facebook founder does “anything illegal” to influence the upcoming presidential election.
The former president made the claim in a new book, titled Save America, which is a collection of pictures and anecdotes from his presidential campaigns and term in office.
Next to a photograph of him meeting Mr Zuckerberg in the White House, Mr Trump wrote: “He would bring his very nice wife to dinners, be as nice as anyone could be, while always plotting to install shameful Lock Boxes in a true PLOT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT.”
It was a reference to the more than $400m (£303m) Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan Zuckerberg, donated to election offices in 2020.
The gifts mostly went to Democratic-leaning counties in some states – partly because Republican politicians rejected the donations as Mr Trump warned against funding election offices so they could instead encourage postal votes during the coronavirus pandemic.
Mr Trump and his supporters have repeatedly blamed the donations for contributing to his loss in 2020.
“We are watching him closely,” Mr Trump wrote in his new book, “and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison – as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election.”
Meanwhile, Zuckerberg seems to be doing everything he can to cozy up to President Trump now:
Mark Zuckerberg says that it’s “hard not to get emotional” about the spirit Trump showed getting up and pumping his fist with the American flag behind him after being shot. He says it’s “one of the most badass things I’ve ever seen.”
What is happening? pic.twitter.com/YV2MkQBIpb
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) July 19, 2024
Too little too late?
We also had this very strange letter earlier this week:
Did Mark Zuckerberg Just Admit To Election Interference?
What in the world is going on here?
After doing this for 10+ years and counting, I can see around a lot of corners and I typically can get a good read on exactly what’s happening with any given story fairly quickly.
But this is a stunner to me.
Mark Zuckerberg just sent a letter to Congress revealing what we all long-suspected: that the Biden Administration pressured him to censor content, both political and health (COVID) content:
JUST IN: Mark Zuckerberg regrets working with the Biden-Harris administration to censor Covid era information online. pic.twitter.com/g9uclEZouA
— wallstreetbets (@wallstreetbets) August 27, 2024
Here’s a zoom-in on the letter:
Transcript here if this is easier to read:
Meta
1 Hacker Way
Menlo Park, CA 94025
United States
August 26, 2024
The Honorable Jim Jordan
Chairman
Committee on the Judiciary
United States House of Representatives
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Chairman Jordan:
I appreciate the Committee’s interest in content moderation on online platforms. As you are aware, Meta has produced thousands of documents as part of your investigation and made a dozen employees available for transcribed interviews. Further to our cooperation with your investigation, I welcome the opportunity to share what I’ve taken away from this process.
There’s a lot of talk right now around how the U.S. government interacts with companies like Meta, and I want to be clear about our position. Our platforms are for everyone — we’re about promoting speech and helping people connect in a safe and secure way. As part of this, we regularly hear from governments around the world and others with various concerns around public discourse and public safety.
In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree. Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today. Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction — and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.
In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election. That fall, when we saw a New York Post story reporting on corruption allegations involving then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s family, we sent that story to fact-checkers for review and temporarily demoted it while waiting for a reply. It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story. We’ve changed our policies and processes to make sure this doesn’t happen again — for instance, we no longer temporarily demote things in the U.S. while waiting for fact-checkers.
Apart from content moderation, I want to address the contributions I made during the last presidential cycle to support electoral infrastructure. The idea here was to make sure local election jurisdictions across the country had the resources they needed to help people vote safely during a global pandemic. I made these contributions through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. They were designed to be non-partisan — spread across urban, rural, and suburban communities. Still, despite the analyses I’ve seen showing otherwise, I know that some people believe this work benefited one party over the other. My goal is to be neutral and not play a role one way or another — or to even appear to be playing a role. So I don’t plan on making a similar contribution this cycle.
Respectfully,
/s/ Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder, Chairman & CEO
Meta Platforms, Inc.
cc: The Honorable Jerrold Nadler, Ranking Member
The stunning part is that the letter seems to “come out of the blue” — not in response to anything but seemingly just sent in on a whim.
What is going on here?
In baseball, I believe we would call this an “unforced error”.
Patrick Bet-David was similarly perplexed and suggested three possible explanations:
BREAKING: Mark Zuckerberg just admitted to working with Biden/Harris admin to censor Americans.
He either admitted to this because:
1. He’s being honorable
2. He’s done with the Dem party
3. He’s getting ahead of a whistleblowerEither way this is a VERY HARD letter to write. pic.twitter.com/y64cOQjY15
— Patrick Bet-David (@patrickbetdavid) August 27, 2024
To which I added a 4th Option:
4. He’s scared of a second Trump Administration and trying like hell to do damage control now
— DailyNoah.com (@DailyNoahNews) August 27, 2024
Sorry but I don’t think you just get to do all of this and then fire off a letter claiming it was a big mistake and begging for forgiveness.
That’s not how this works.
I want to know what impact, if any, these actions had on the election.
Did they influence the election?
Did they sway the results?
How many people would have voted differently if Facebook didn’t determine what you could and couldn’t see?
I lived this first-hand.
Heading into the 2020 election, our Trump Facebook Page had 1.5 MILLION Followers and it was very active.
Hundreds of thousands of views and clicks every week.
We were literally reaching MILLIONS of people.
Then one day in late summer the Page was DELETED. POOF. Gone.
No warnings.
They didn’t even make an attempt to claim we violated a rule (because we didn’t).
They just deleted us.
Wiped out.
Is THAT election interference?
How many people didn’t hear our message leading up to that election because we were silenced with no judge, no jury and no right to appeal?
Just deleted with one click of Mark Zuckerberg’s keyboard.
How many people did that affect?
Well, at least 1.5 million!
And counting all the thousands of shares we would get on a daily basis, I think the true number is 2x, 5, 10x or even more. Likely tens of millions of people never saw the TRUTH we print around here because Mark Zuckerberg thought we didn’t deserve to exist on Facebook.
Is this Election Interference?
Is this a Violation of our First Amendment rights?
No, this is not just some “private company” that can do whatever they want. Enough with that BS.
Mark Zuckerberg’s own letter has now taken that option away from the discourse.
This was the Federal Government putting their thumb on Facebook to censor people like ME!
And if you ask me, that’s a textbook violation of the First Amendment and possibly Election Interference and possible even Treason.
What do you think?
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.