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Donald Trump says Elon Musk’s release of internal files at Twitter Inc show it was illegal censorship when he was banned on the platform for stoking the January 6 insurrection.
The ex-president said in a court filing it’s not enough that Twitter, under the new ownership of Musk, welcomed him back onto the platform late last year — an invitation he so far has snubbed.
He’s now asking the judge who threw out his legal challenge to the ban to reopen the lawsuit in light of “new evidence†— and validate his claim that he never should have been kicked off two days after his supporters stormed the US Capitol.
Trump’s lawyers are pinning their argument on a tranche of internal Twitter documents that Musk gave to two conservative journalists, who published a series called the Twitter Files. The internal communications showed Twitter employees discussing the removal of Trump from the platform and handling right-leaning accounts that spread misinformation.