The Wall Street Journal reported about the settlement on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the matter
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Near the end of his speech, he said: “And we fight. We fight like hell and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
By that time, just after 1 p.m., a crowd had already made its way to the Capitol.
“After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence,” it said.
Trump then filed a lawsuit against Twitter and Dorsey. In the complaint, Trump and other plaintiffs accused Twitter of allegedly “using non-existent, broad, vague, and ever-shifting standards” to deplatform them. “Akin to forcing a round peg into a square hole, Twitter declared that specific Twitter posts of (Trump) had violated its self-composed ‘Twitter Rules,’” the complaint said.
The complaint was later dismissed, according to a court document filed in June 2022. Trump’s lawyers appealed.
This month, however, on Feb. 10, a motion by all parties to voluntarily dismiss the complaint was granted, per another court document.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that Trump’s lawyers are likely to seek a settlement with tech company Google, which suspended Trump’s account on its video platform YouTube, following Jan. 6.
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