New York (EFE).- Former US President Donald Trump announced this Friday his return to the social network Facebook, the same day that YouTube also announced that it was lifting its restrictions against the tycoon.
In the early afternoon, Trump sent a laconic message in capital letters to announce: “I’m back!”, and he did it accompanied by a video (corresponding to the day of his presidential election) in which he appears saying: “I’m sorry to have made to wait. (There were) complications.”
Then an electoral-type poster appears in which he promotes his candidacy for the next presidential elections: “Trump 2024, Make America Great Again.”
The publication is the first that Trump has made on Facebook after the company announced last January that the former president could use the platform again.
Trump was banned from the main social networks -Facebook, Twitter or Youtube- after his hosts assaulted the Capitol, and then he created his Truth social network with which the media assured that he had signed an exclusivity contract, but everything indicates that the contract would have expired or is no longer valid.
The removal of the YouTube ban on Trump
YouTube announced this Friday that it removes the veto from Trump, who was penalized after the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and that the candidate for the Republican primaries for the upcoming 2024 presidential elections “can upload new content.”
“We carefully assess the continued risk of violence around the world, while balancing the chance that major national candidates will be heard equally by voters in the run-up to an election,” YouTube noted in a tweet.
Trump’s channel has 2.64 million subscribers and more than 4,000 videos.
“This channel will remain subject to our policies, just like any other YouTube channel,” added the Alphabet company.
In May 2021, CEO Susan Wojcicki said the ban on Trump’s channel would be lifted when the risk of further violent incitement subsided.
Before the Justice
Separately, a federal judge today ordered Trump’s lawyer, Evan Corcoran, to testify before the grand jury in the so-called Mar-a-lago case, about the mishandling of classified documents by the Republican.
The Hill portal, which cites several concurring sources, says that Judge Beryl Howell has indications that the lawyer gave Trump advice to allow him to commit a crime, beyond fulfilling the strict task of representing his client.
According to The Hill, this appearance can make Corcoran a key witness in the case and allow rapid progress in a case in which the Prosecutor’s team has already scrutinized no less than 300 classified documents improperly extracted by Donald Trump.