(Carmine Sabia) Billionaire Elon Musk has answered reports that he was influenced by former President Donald Trump in his bid to takeover Twitter.
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“This is false. I’ve had no communication, directly or indirectly, with Trump,” he said on Friday in response to a New York Post story that was shared on Twitter.
The story in question cited comments made by Devin Nunes, the CEO of Truth Social, during an appearance on Fox Business.
“President Trump, basically before Elon Musk bought it, actually said to go and buy it because the goal of our company is really to build a community where people are in a family-friendly, safe environment,” he said on Wednesday when he appeared on “Varney & Co.”
“So people like Elon Musk doing what he’s doing, we’re definitely in favor of it,” he said. “That’s why we encouraged Elon Musk to buy it, because someone has to continue to take on these tech tyrants.”
But as Musk denied any communication with the former president he noted that Trump “has publicly stated that he will be exclusively on Truth Social.”
This is false. I’ve had no communication, directly or indirectly, with Trump, who has publicly stated that he will be exclusively on Truth Social.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 6, 2022
But Nunes has also hit back at the reports. Epoch Times reporter Jan Jekielek said he spoke to him and Nunes explained why the Post headline was incorrect.
“Checked in with Devin Dunes, who says ‘quietly is fake news.’ His team says Nunes was referring to what Trump said in a FOX interview, and that the Post didn’t reach out to them for clarification,” he said.
Checked in with Devin Dunes, who says “quietly is fake news.” His team says Nunes was referring to what Trump said in a FOX interview, and that the Post didn’t reach out to them for clarification.
— Jan Jekielek (@JanJekielek) May 6, 2022
During an interview with Fox News, Trump made it clear he doesn’t plan on returning to Twitter and instead plans to use his own TRUTH Social as the sole platform for his voice.
“I am not going on Twitter, I am going to stay on TRUTH,” Trump said. “I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on TRUTH.”
“We’re taking in millions of people, and what we’re finding is that the response on TRUTH is much better than being on Twitter,” Trump said. “Twitter has bots and fake accounts, and we are doing everything we can.”
He added: “The bottom line is, no, I am not going back to Twitter.”
When asked if Musk taking over Twitter could be competition to TRUTH, Trump said he believes it will be good overall for social media.
“I think it is good. We want liberty and justice and fairness in our country, and the more we can have open, the better,” Trump said. “But no, I don’t view that as a competition for what I am doing.”
“This is a platform for my voice. TRUTH is a platform for my voice and for my supporters,” Trump said. “But I want everybody to come over to TRUTH—conservatives, liberals, whatever.”
Trump said Twitter “became very boring because conservatives were thrown off or got off the platform when I left.”
“It became boring because there was no interaction,” Trump said. “The interaction on TRUTH has been amazing.”
He added: “We want everybody.”
“TRUTH Social will be a voice for me,” Trump continued. “And that’s something nobody else can get.”
Nunes, who left Congress to become CEO of a new media conglomerate Trump Media & Technology Group launched by the former president, has said that DHS’ “Disinformation Governance Board” will target TRUTH Social, the new social media platform that is the Trump company’s first offering.
He said that the government itself is poised to become the most significant threat to freedom of speech now that “Big Tech tyrants” can’t silence their voices, the Washington Examiner reported.
“I think it’s so Orwellian, so dystopian, something you only see in dictatorships that now they’re going to set up some type of disinformation board. I think that’s a direct attack on what we are doing at Truth Social because we can no longer be canceled,” Nunes told Maria Bartiromo on her Fox News show “Sunday Morning Futures.”
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