Tue May 10, 2022 – 6:37 pm EDTTue May 10, 2022 – 6:52 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Tuesday stated that he will reactivate former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Twitter account if his deal to purchase the social media platform goes through, calling the decision to permanently ban Trump “foolish” and “morally wrong.”
“Permanent bans should be extremely rare,” the Tesla and SpaceX founder said during a Financial Times summit on Tuesday, explaining that the move should be reserved for fraudulent accounts or “spam/scam accounts where there’s just no legitimacy to the account at all.”
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“I do think it was not correct to ban Donald Trump. I think that was a mistake, because it alienated a large part of the country,” Musk said.
The billionaire affirmed during the May 10 summit he “would reverse the permanent ban” of Trump’s account if his $44 billion deal with Twitter is finalized.
Important to listen to my full explanation
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 10, 2022
Musk, a free speech proponent who is expected to become the temporary CEO of Twitter after his successful buyout
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