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Why Twitter Will Continue To Be Trump’s Trusted Megaphone

Ezinne Ukoha
7 min readJul 24, 2020

Not too long ago, Jack Dorsey received a heartbreaking plea in the form of a letter directly addressed to the Twitter CEO.

Timothy Klausutis, passionately pleaded for an immediate takedown of the disgusting tweets posted by the President of the United States where he repeatedly accuses longtime MSNBC anchor and vocal critic Joe Scarborough, of murdering his 28-year-old intern, Lori Klausutis, back in 2001.

Trump’s signature moves have always relied heavily on hitting below the belt, even when such actions have potentially deadly consequences.

When the GOP followed their supreme leader’s example during that abominable period of relentless harassment geared towards the first-ever Muslim-American woman to be elected to Congress, Ilhan Omar, even high-ranking Democrats couldn’t provide much protection from the avalanche of false accusations that were propelled from xenophobic and Islamophobic tendencies.

The horrific event of 9/11 seemed to give rattled Americans automatic permission to harbor an approved disdain of Muslim-Americans that could be justified by the extremism of cowardly bandits weaponizing the Islamic faith for the lure of absolute power.

Having grown up in a country with a large Muslim population, my exposure through friends in…

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