Twitter reverses activity ban on Rokita’s Trump tweet that implied unproven election fraud
Twitter has reversed course on an activity ban that it placed on a tweet from Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita implying that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
Twitter users can now reply, retweet, and like Rokita’s tweet.
On Monday Twitter banned all activity on the tweet, which contained a Valentine’s Day meme of a cartoon portrait of Donald Trump with the text “You stole my heart like you stole the 2020 election.” Rokita posted it on his personal Twitter account.
The social media company placed a banner at the bottom of the tweet that said activity was banned “due to a risk of violence.” That banner is no longer there.
Rokita issued a statement Monday after the ban saying that the meme was “tongue in cheek”, but added that “several left-leaning states” conducted elections in violation of the U.S. Constitution. Rokita did not identify which states, nor did he explain how he believes they violated the Constitution.
“We’ll never know the full extent to which these states’ actions impacted the 2020 Presidential election,” Rokita said at the time.
It is worth noting that Trump challenged results in traditionally Republican-voting states such as Georgia and Arizona. He also challenged them in major swing states such as Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — both of which voted Republican in the 2016 presidential elections.
He also chided Twitter for flagging his tweet, referring to “Big Tech’s frequent censorship of speech.”
Trump has claimed he won the 2020 election despite offering no proof of widespread voter fraud. Courts in key swing states repeatedly rejected arguments made by Trump’s legal team.
Rokita in December urged the Supreme Court to hear a lawsuit Texas filed claiming that four states had unconstitutional election practices, claims that court ultimately rejected.
Call IndyStar courts reporter Johnny Magdaleno at 317-273-3188 or email him at jmagdaleno@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @IndyStarJohnny
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