Trump formally asks Facebook to let him return to ON while he builds 2024 race

Donald Trump is looking to reclaim his social media supremacy just 10 days before the first official event of his 2024 presidential campaign.

Once in command of the social media accounts that were among the most viewed on Facebook and Twitter, Trump was banned from both platforms for his actions related to the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. .

He was reinstated at Twitter thanks to the results of a public user survey conducted by its eccentric new billionaire owner, Elon Musk.

And on Tuesday, the Trump campaign sent a letter to Facebook’s parent company, Meta, requesting a meeting to discuss bringing the former president back online for the sake of free speech, according to nbc news.

“We believe that the ban on President Trump’s Facebook account has dramatically distorted and inhibited public discourse,” the letter stated.

The letter also argued that the ban was “interfering” with a fair electoral process.

Meta reportedly told NBC that he will “announce a decision in the next few weeks in accordance with the process that we laid out.”

DailyMail.com has contacted Trump’s spokesperson to request a copy of the letter.

Trump has been accused of irritating his supporters on social media ahead of the 2021 Capitol Hill riots, when a mob that believed his claims that the 2020 election had been stolen attempted to violently disrupt the president’s victory certification. Joe Biden.

He was placed on an indefinite ban on Facebook, which was criticized by the platform’s Supervisory Board. In response, he limited himself to a two-year suspension.

His campaign reportedly asked Meta for a meeting to discuss Trump’s suspension of his social media platform Facebook (pictured: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg)

Trump has yet to return to Twitter despite his account being reactivated for nearly two months.

His main channel of communication has been Truth Social, an app created by his own company that was formed after he left office: Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG).

Trump regularly posts on the app; however, he resigned as TMTG’s chairman less than a month before the company was subpoenaed by the SEC over an investigation into a ‘blank check company’ it was reportedly merging with.

He hasn’t said anything about coming back, but a much larger audience expects Trump on Twitter than he enjoys on Truth Social.

As of Wednesday, the former president’s Truth Social account shows 4.82 million followers, by far the most popular profile on the platform.

But he has more than 87 million followers waiting for him on Twitter.

His campaign’s petition to Facebook comes less than two weeks before his first event of 2024.

Trump was banned from Facebook and Twitter for his conduct related to the riots at the US Capitol.

It will come more than two months after Trump announced he would run for the White House for the third time in a lavish ceremony at his Mar-a-Lago mansion on November 15.

The event will take place in Columbia, South Carolina, according to the Trump 2024 campaign.

He will be there Jan. 28 to introduce his South Carolina leadership team, according to the statement.

Joining him will be South Carolina’s Republican Gov. Henry McMaster and his top senator, Lindsey Graham, a staunch Trump ally in Congress.

It’s a notable choice for its first official appearance in the 2024 election campaign. It is now the first state in the 2024 Democratic primary cycle after the national party moved to review its contests.