Trump Asks Facebook To Reinstate His Account

Former President Donald Trump’s team sent a letter to Facebook on Tuesday requesting the social media platform reinstate his account.

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, banned Trump after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot for posts that Meta claimed constituted “praise for people engaged in violence.” Facebook had set Trump’s ban to expire Jan. 7, 2023. Now, the company is reportedly deliberating on whether to reinstate him, Trump’s team wrote in the letter reviewed by the Daily Caller.

In the letter, Trump’s team argued that the ban on the former president “has dramatically distorted and inhibited the public discourse,” and that a continued ban would be “a deliberate effort by a private company to silence Mr. Trump’s political voice,” given that he’s currently running in the 2024 presidential election.

“Every day that President Trump’s political voice remains silenced furthers an inappropriate interference in the American political and election process,” the letter read.