Mr Trump has used Twitter to announce policy, sack colleagues and stoke domestic tensionsPresident Trump has been banned permanently from Twitter, severing forever his favourite way of communicating with his supporters. The social network explained a move it had resisted for years by saying that Mr Trump’s recent tweets, in which he called his supporters “great American patriots” and declared he would not attend Joe Biden’s inauguration, posed a “risk of further incitement of violence”. SponsoredThe account, which was followed by 89 million people, was at once a source of immense rallying power and a display window for Mr Trump’s most grievous excesses. His unprecedented rise from television stardom to the Oval Office was propelled in no small part by his instinctive grasp of what conservative grassroots craved from the then-nascent platform. Mr Trump had been suspended on

Source: The Times January 09, 2021 01:09 UTC