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After pretty much every major platform either suspended or banned Trump for posts that moderators saw as encouraging the Capitol riot, the former president and some of his supporters have been trying to find a new social media home. Trump and his team had reportedly been in talks over the past year for him to join two other conservative-leaning platforms, Parler and Gab, though the negotiations ultimately went nowhere. His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reportedly stepped in to prevent him from joining because he felt the platforms weren’t well managed. The two sites have notably also reserved accounts for Trump in case he eventually decides to join. The former president’s first attempt to stage a comeback on social media was by creating a janky microblog connected to his official website called “From the Desk of Donald J. Trump,” though he decided to shutter the platform due to poor readership and people making fun of him. Last weekend he ended up joining Rumble, a YouTube clone popular among conservatives, where he livestreamed his rally in Ohio. He’s also been teasing the release of his own platform to compete with Facebook, which is apparently separate from GETTR, though the details of the forthcoming project are scant.
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