Texas Senator Ted Cruz is being criticized for his two very different reactions to the discoveries of classified documents at the home of President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence.

Gustaf Kilander recounts the apparent hypocrisy of the senator.

Donald Trump reacted to the news of Meta’s decision to reinstate his Facebook and Instagram accounts by posting on Truth Social, his own platform created after he was banned from major social networks.

The former president wrote:

FACEBOOK, which has lost billions of dollars in value since it “ditched” its favorite president, me, has just announced that it is restoring my account. Such a thing should never again happen to a sitting president, or anyone else who does not deserve retaliation! THANK YOU TO TRUTH SOCIAL FOR DOING SUCH AN INCREDIBLE JOB. YOUR GROWTH IS EXCELLENT AND FUTURE UNLIMITED!!!

Trump has 4.84 million followers on Truth Social, while he had an audience of around 34 million on Facebook and 23 million on Instagram.

Congressman Adam Schiff, a January 6 committee member and outspoken critic of Donald Trump, accused the company of giving the former president a “platform to do more harm.”

“Trump incited an insurrection. And tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power,” the California Democrat said. I wrote on Twitter yesterday.

“He showed no remorse. No contrition. Giving him back access to a social media platform to spread his lies and grandstanding is dangerous. Facebook relented.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has announced that former President Donald Trump will be reinstated on Facebook and Instagram, ending the banning of their accounts following the January 6 riot at the US Capitol.

Nick Clegg, president of global affairs at Meta, released a statement on the company’s website on Wednesday. Read his statement in full:

A Canadian woman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to sending a threatening letter containing the poison ricin to then-President Donald Trump at the White House.

Pascale Ferrier’s letter ordering Trump to “withdraw and withdraw his candidacy for this election” was intercepted at a mail sorting center in September 2020, before it could reach the White House.

The Florida governor, who has yet to announce a 2024 campaign, was leading the former president in a North Carolina Faith and Freedom Coalition poll released yesterday.

The poll is one of the most reliable indicators for tracking support for active white evangelicals in the Republican Party’s presidential primaries.

More in this report from my colleague John Bowden:

Sportswriter and author Rick Reilly slammed Donald Trump as a “cheater” after the golf-loving former president claimed victory in a competitive tournament earlier this week – despite losing on day one.

He said it was “a great honour” to have won the tournament”[at] one of the best courses in the country.

Letting Donald Trump back on Facebook is a signal to other personalities with large online audiences that they can break the rules without lasting consequences, said Heidi Beirich, founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism and a member of a group called Real Facebook Oversight. Board that criticized the platform’s efforts.

“I’m not surprised, but it’s a disaster,” Beirich said of Meta’s decision. “Facebook created loopholes for Trump that he walked through. He caused an uprising on Facebook. And now he’s back.

NAACP President Derrick Johnson slammed the decision as “a great example of putting profits ahead of people’s safety” and a “serious mistake”.

“It’s staggering that anyone could spread hatred, fuel conspiracies, and incite violent insurrection in our nation’s Capitol building, and Mark Zuckerberg still thinks that’s not enough to remove someone from his platforms. shapes,” he said.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has announced it will soon restore the twice-impeached former president’s access to its platforms, just over two years after Trump used his social media profiles to incite to a violent attack on the Capitol from the United States. .

Andre Feinberg reports from Washington, DC.

Among the 12 confidential documents recovered from the home of former Vice President Mike Pence, several were background reports prepared for his official international trip.

The documents may have been forgotten because they were in other old travel binders and would be difficult to locate without flipping through every page, multiple sources told CNN.

These briefing binders often contain details of the people an officer will meet on his international visit, and the information included can range from basic knowledge about foreign leaders to more sensitive information about them.

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