Nicholas Sandmann asks Elon Musk to release ‘hidden’ Twitter files on death threats against him
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A former high school student who found himself at the center of controversy after continuing to smile while standing face to face with a Native American while wearing a hat reading ‘Make America Great Again’ wants Twitter CEO Elon Musk to , post the files related to death. threats made against him.
In a tweet on Sunday, Nicholas Sandmann, now 20, questioned whether there were “hidden Twitter files” about the death threats he received following the 2019 incident.
“As I watch this all play out, I wonder if @elonmusk has any hidden Twitter files related to what happened here,” Sandmann said on Twitter on Sunday. “Let’s be clear: under the watch of @vijaya, they allowed these illegal threats when I was 16 years old.”
Sandmann included screenshots in the tweet of verified Twitter accounts calling for people to burn down his high school and throw ‘MAGA kids’ into a wood chipper.
The post comes after Musk released the ‘Twitter Files,’ which is a collection of messages between Twitter employees about the platform’s suppression of the infamous New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop that was published in October 2020.
Nicholas Sandmann, who was at the center of controversy for smiling while standing face to face with a Native American while wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ hat, wants Twitter CEO Elon Musk to release files related to death threats made against you
In a tweet, Sandmann questioned whether there were ‘hidden’ Twitter files about the death threats he received following the 2019 incident.
The “Twitter files” dubbed by Musk show Twitter employees going back and forth trying to justify their censorship of the Hunter Biden story under the site’s hacked materials rules.
It seems many senior platform officials were doubtful whether Hunter Biden’s laptop was accessed through unscrupulous means.
As the story spread over the weekend, Sandmann, a former Covington high school student, wanted in on the action.
Sandmann said he received death threats after the media portrayed the 2019 March for Life incident between him and Native American activist Nathan Phillips as a group of white teenagers harassing an older Native American.
The incident was met with fury online, as it was bombarded with death threats. In his tweet on Sunday, he shared screenshots of posts showing the threats and asked Musk about any hidden Twitter files related to the posts.
A few days earlier, Musk had said that there will be more Twitter file releases.
“You know Twitter is being fair when far-right and far-left extremists are simultaneously upset,” Musk said Friday. ‘Twitter aims to serve the center of 80% of people who want to learn, laugh and engage in reasoned debate.’
The “Twitter files” dubbed by Musk show Twitter employees going back and forth trying to justify their censorship of the Hunter Biden story under the site’s hacked materials rules.
Sandmann included screenshots in the tweet of verified Twitter accounts calling for people to burn down his high school and throw ‘MAGA kids’ into a wood chipper.
Following the 2019 incident, Sandmann filed lawsuits that he claimed portrayed a 16-year-old as racist after the MAGA hat-wearing teen was shown standing face-to-face with the Native American man on January 18, 2019.
The Covington Catholic High School student and thousands of other students and pro-life advocates attended a March for Life event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.
It was the 47th edition of the march, which protested the 1973 Roe v Wade Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion throughout the United States.
Sandmann, while donning his red pro-Trump hat, was accosted by Native American elder Nathan Phillips, a counter-protester attending the Indigenous Peoples’ March.
The white teenager was recorded smiling as Phillips played a ceremonial drum and sang his face. The clip immediately shot to the forefront of media reports, which claimed the incident was racially charged.
He has always maintained that the confrontation had nothing to do with race and demanded that NBCUniversal pay a staggering $275 million.
On January 18, 2019, Covington Catholic High School student Sandmann (left), then 16, attended a March for Life event at Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. Sandmann, while donning a red pro-Trump Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat, was accosted by Native American elder Nathan Phillips (right), a counter-protester attending the march.
He has always maintained that the confrontation had nothing to do with race and demanded that NBCUniversal pay a staggering $275 million.
“NBCUniversal created a false narrative by portraying the ‘confrontation’ as a ‘hate crime’ committed by Nicholas,” the lawsuit said.
He also added that the teen was an “easy target for NBCUniversal to advance its anti-Trump agenda because he was a 16-year-old white Catholic student who had attended the Right to Life March that day and was wearing a MAGA cap on his head.” time of the incident that he had bought earlier that day as a souvenir.
The lawsuit claims that NBC “unleashed its vast corporate wealth, influence and power against Nicholas to falsely attack him even though he was a 16-year-old high school student at the time.”
In a DailyMail.com column last year, Sandmann compared the event and its aftermath to that of Kyle Rittenhouse, who was cleared of all charges after shooting three men, killing two, during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin.