BREAKING: Trump asks judge to force Facebook to give his account back

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday petitioned a federal judge to force Facebook to give him his account back whereas the authorized motion his workforce has in opposition to the social media behemoth continues to be in progress. Trump had been suspended by the social media platform for two years.

The petition on Thursday was for a preliminary injunction on Facebook’s banning his account, related to one other transfer he made in direction of Twitter on Oct. 2 2021 in efforts to get that account restored.

Trump’s authorized proceedings in opposition to the 2 largest social media firms and their CEOs was initially introduced to the general public on Jul. 7 2021.

Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts had a mixed 59 million folks following them. The movement for the injunction argues that the social media platforms – Facebook (which incorporates Instagram by definition), Twitter, and YouTube are named within the lawsuit–are “a major avenue for public discourse and an essential tool for politicians to connect with voters and win elections,” in accordance to the Washington Examiner.

John Coale, the lead council of the Trump authorized workforce, acknowledged “This preliminary injunction against Facebook seems appropriate to file this week since they’ve been big in the news lately for all the issues they’re facing.”

“Zuckerberg and Facebook say it’s the 21st-century public town square; if so, they should uphold the First Amendment,” Coale stated. “You can’t have it both ways. They’re like a public utility when it comes to speech.”

They insist that the injunction is critical as a result of the social media firms are “threatening irreparable damage to the Republican Party’s prospects in the 2022 and 2024 elections.”

The White House had responded in June to the Facebook Oversight Board’s upholding of the two-year ban, saying

“Our view continues to be though, that every platform, whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, any other platform that is disseminating information to millions of Americans has a responsibility to crack down on disinformation, to crack down on false information, whether it’s about the election or even about the vaccine as we’re trying to keep the American public safe and return to normal out in society.”

“We learned a lot from President Trump, the former president, over the last couple of years about his behavior and how he uses these platforms,” she continued. “Feels pretty unlikely that the zebra’s gonna change its stripes over the next two years,” Psaki added. “We’ll see.”