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3:26Now PlayingElon Musk is in the tank for Trump, which is something that he has admitted with his endorsement of the convicted felon. But the depths to which Musk is sinking to help Trump are absolutely deplorable. In addition to sharing deepfake videos of Harris and getting called out for it, Musk also suspended the group White Dudes For Harris from the platform this week after they held a call that raised millions for Kamala Harris. They didn’t violate any rules, so it was obvious why this suspension happened. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.
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In early July, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, Tesla, and of course SpaceX came out and publicly endorsed Donald Trump, which was the least surprising thing that has happened in this entire campaign cycle. It's very obvious that Elon Musk is a Republican and he's free to be a Republican. There's nothing wrong with that, but there does become a wrong thing to it at some point, right? Because this week, the group white dudes for Harris held a call on Twitter. 200,000 people joined it. You had big time celebrities hosting it. Jeff Bridges, uh, uh, uh, uh, who were some of the other people? Sorry, Joseph Gordon Levitt, uh, Lance Bass, Sean Astin, all of these big name people were there. White dudes for Harris. They raised, I think, what, $4 million for Kamala Harris in the span of an hour. It was a huge, wonderful thing. And they hosted it, of course, on Twitter, and it was under the, uh, at dudes for Harris handle.
So you know what Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter did, and I'm not gonna call it X did. In response to that, he suspended their account, he suspended their account. And according to the people who run the dudes for Harris Twitter handle, it was because they had a complaint from a user that they were violating the terms of service, and the account was taken offline for close to 24 hours after they raised millions of dollars for Kamala Harris, Elon Musk, the so-called Free Speech Warrior. I want everybody to have a place on the platform. I'm not censoring anybody who has repeatedly engaged in censorship of people who criticize him or go against him politically, which is what dudes for Harris did. And they got suspended for it. They did not actually violate the terms of service. And if Twitter, anybody working there, had spent five seconds to look into this complaint they received, they would've known that it wasn't violating the terms of service.
But Elon Musk did it because it goes against what he wants to do politically, whether we wanna admit it or not. Twitter is now the new Public Town Square. It is, of course, one of the most popular social media apps on the planet. It is one of the most powerful, and it is being run by an idiotic manchild that is using it as his own personal political arm. As I mentioned in the past, this Free Speech Warrior has banned journalists who have been critical of him. Oh, and sure they've been reinstated later on, but he has banned his critics and he is now banning political operations, raising money for Kamala Harris. Let me put it even more simple than that. Elon Musk is using Twitter, rigging Twitter to help benefit Donald Trump's failing campaign.
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