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Twitter finally pulls the plug on Trump
Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump’s account, saying the risk of further incitement outweighed any remaining benefit of keeping him on the platform.
Edition · January 9, 2021
Trump’s January 9 meltdown edition
The post-insurrection fallout hardened into bans, investigations, and a fresh Georgia-election fiasco.
On January 9, 2021, Trump-world kept finding new ways to make the week after the Capitol attack worse. Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump’s account, a stunning private-sector rebuke after days of escalating incitement and evasive workarounds. Separately, new reporting on Trump’s pressure campaign in Georgia added to the evidence that he was still trying to bully officials into overturning the election. Taken together, it was a day when the costs of Trump’s behavior stopped being theoretical and started turning into real institutional blowback.
Closing take
The immediate damage was reputational and operational, but the larger problem was structural: a defeated president whose refusal to accept reality kept generating new crises even after a mob had already stormed the Capitol. January 9 showed that the aftermath of January 6 was not a cleanup phase; it was a live wire.
Ranked by how bad the fuckup was
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A Georgia pressure call keeps Trump’s election scheme in the spotlight
New reporting on Trump’s call to a Georgia elections investigator kept the pressure campaign to overturn the vote front and center, with fresh details that he had urged officials to “find the fraud.”
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Trump’s workaround game immediately falls apart
After the ban, Trump and his circle tried to keep broadcasting through other official channels, but the effort only underscored how dependent he was on platforms he had just helped poison.