Exclusive: Twitter suspended me last Friday for “abuse and harassment”—because I tried to tweet an article about how a former CIA director had apparently supported executing Donald Trump. You have to love the logic of the Left!
I co-wrote an article for Media Research Center’s (MRC) Free Speech America titled, “NewsGuard Advisor Seems to Agree Trump Should Be Executed for Allegedly Having Nuke Docs.” Below is an excerpt from that article, which is, as you can see above, the reason I was censored:
“A former CIA director and NewsGuard advisor yesterday seemingly promoted the execution of former President Donald Trump on Twitter.
A Washington Post ‘exclusive’ released Aug. 11 speculated that the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Fla., estate to locate alleged missing nuclear documents [Trump’s team has said all the documents he had were declassified]. NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss tweeted shortly after the ‘exclusive’ was released that the ‘Rosenbergs were convicted for giving U.S. nuclear secrets to Moscow, and were executed June 1953.’
Retired Gen. Michael Hayden quote-tweeted Beschloss’s post with the comment, ‘Sounds about right.’”
MRC Free Speech America was not the only outlet to report on Hayden’s insane tweet. What was unique about our report is that we noted Hayden is an advisor for NewsGuard, which is a self-appointed online “credibility” arbiter. NewsGuard has shown consistent leftist bias and even ranked several Chinese state media outlets higher than several US conservative outlets. NewsGuard also has a partnership with Bill Gates’s Microsoft—even though Gates, as I have reported before, funds many of the same outlets which NewsGuard rates (and rates positively).
The point is, the MRC article was not “abuse and harassment.” We never once urged readers to contact, let alone harass, Hayden, and since Hayden’s comment was in a public tweet (and therefore specifically meant to be viewed by anyone and everyone) there shouldn’t be the remotest issue with our reporting on it. That’s what journalists are supposed to do—report what people actually say.
Neither was my tweet harassment. It simply included the article link and article title, with the minor change that I used the Twitter handle for NewsGuard rather than just its name. This is not harassment—it’s hardly unusual to use the Twitter handle of a group, outlet, or person when posting a story to Twitter rather than just the name. That’s a feature of Twitter. Is Twitter somehow objecting to my use of its own features?
The only person who was “wishing or hoping that someone experiences physical harm,” as Twitter accused me of doing, was Hayden. In case you’re wondering, Hayden hasn’t been suspended. In fact, yesterday Hayden agreed with and shared a tweet calling Republicans “nihilistic, dangerous & contemptible.”
Twitter is a woke, dystopian hellhole, essentially acting as speech police for the Democrat party in the latter’s witch-hunt against Trump and his supporters. Frankly I don’t care much about getting suspended from it—I prefer the pro-free speech platforms like Gettr and TruthSocial anyway, and I say that in all sincerity. What is so ridiculous about my Twitter suspension is that Twitter did NOT censor Michael Hayden for apparently threatening a former president of the United States, but it did accuse me of “abuse and harassment” for doing my job as a journalist and reporting on Hayden’s comments. It’s hypocrisy of the most ridiculous kind. And yes, Hayden’s tweet is still up:
So much for the First Amendment online.
Sickening... the devolution of our grand republic continues apace.