Trump goes to court to block people who criticize him on Twitter

[turbinetree]

By
Lisa Needham -
March 27, 2019

The DOJ is defending Trump's right to block people, even as they agree that he uses Twitter to make official government proclamations.

Donald Trump can dish it out, but he can't take it. Which is why he blocks people on Twitter.

And he's so sensitive about his right to do so that he's got the Department of Justice representing him at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Trump's desperately hoping that the court will overturn a lower court decision that has prevented him from blocking critics since May 2018.

Given the questions from the three-judge panel at the Second Circuit on Tuesday, things don't look good for Trump's gaining his right to remain thin-skinned.

Back in 2017, seven people that Trump blocked on Twitter, along with the Knight First Amendment Institute, sued to force him to unblock them, arguing that Trump's Twitter feed was an official government channel.

https://shareblue.com/trump-justice-department-block-people-twitter/

Now that he has the BARR asshole at DOJ.......................hold on, this traitor cannot take criticism.....................

Your a fucking fraud with no principles or character and I have my rights to call you a disgrace ..................................... ,

[RKP5637]

1. Maybe if the asshole stayed off Twitter and communicated like a president there

would be no replies to him on Twitter!!!

[turbinetree]

2. He can't see that past his raccoon shade eyes ...........................

[bluestarone]

3. IDIOT thinks he's special!

[Volaris]

4. Well what the hell happens to all those carefully-crafted EULA,

IF the judges find in favor of Trump???
Can TWITTER sue somebody for breach of contract?

And not for nothing, but I'd like to know how the original judicary found that a PRIVATELY-OWNED social media platform can be construde to constitute an official government anything, since it's NOT open to The Public, and since it's NOT a .gov...

[athena]

5. He has no self-control.

All he has to do is not read the responses to his tweets. You would think that someone who has the highest office in the most militarily powerful nation on Earth would have that much self-control.

But I have to say his tactics are a lot like those of a third-world dictator. First, you pack the courts with your supporters. Then you use the courts to give yourself more power.

I didn’t think this sort of thing would happen in the U.S. I thought our institutions were strong, and for a while it looked like they were. But the last few weeks have put a lot of doubt in my mind.

[Gothmog]

6. Trump tweets in an official capacity but blocks Twitter users in his personal capacity

Link to tweet