Twitter Inc. should consider suspending Donald Trump’s account because of“blatant threats” the president made on the social media forum, Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris said in letter to the company’s CEO, Jack Dorsey.
Harris cited a number of tweets by Trump in late September, including his push to have House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff “questioned at the highest level for Fraud & Treason” and a Sept. 29 tweet citing a conservative pastor’s view that if Democrats succeeded in removing him from office, “it will cause a Civil War like fracture in this Nation from which our Country will never heal."
The tweets make “blatant threats that put people at risk and our democracy in danger," Harris said in the letter. Twitter’s user agreement specifies that it considers the targeted harassment of individuals and attempts to intimidate or silence someone to be abusive behavior.
“No user, regardless of their job, wealth, or stature should be exempt from abiding by Twitter’s user agreement, not even the President of the United States,“ Harris wrote.