Donald Trump has officially asked to be able to return to Facebook, his campaign team said on Wednesday, calling not to “reduce a presidential candidate to silence”.
The former American president’s lawyer wrote to the platform’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, requesting “a meeting to discuss Donald Trump’s rapid readmission” to the social network.
“We believe that President Trump’s Facebook account suspension has radically distorted and limited public debate,” writes Scott Gast in this Tuesday missive.
He urges the platform to “promote genuine dialogue, not silence a presidential candidate”.
The former Republican leader had been suspended from the social network for two years after the attack carried out by his supporters against the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Facebook had estimated that Donald Trump could only return when the “risks to the security of the public would have disappeared”.
Asked by AFP on Wednesday, a spokesperson for Meta, the network’s parent company, promised a decision on the fate of the former president “in the coming weeks”.
Donald Trump had already been readmitted to Twitter on November 19, 2022, four days after declaring his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election.
He is yet to post on that account, however, communicates primarily through his own platform, Truth Social.
