STATEMENT: Trump Reemerges To Say ‘This Is About Saving Our Country’

Last week, former President Donald Trump “announced the creation of a major new company that will challenge the dominance of the Big Tech giants and Big Media bosses.” Now, he’s speaking out to reveal why exactly he has decided to do this.

“For me, this endeavor is about much more than politics. This is about saving our country,” Trump explained in a statement. “America has always been a nation of smart, spirited, and independent people who take pride in thinking for themselves. We admire those who aren’t afraid to speak their minds or go against the tide. Yet suddenly, we find ourselves being censored and dictated to by a small group of self-righteous scolds and self-appointed arbiters of what everyone else is allowed to think, say, share, and do.”

Trump went on to specifically call out where he feels that the worst censorship is happening.

“Nowhere is this censorship more dangerous and brazen than on social media, the public square of our times,” Trump explained. “We have seen renowned medical doctors being banned from platforms for contradicting “health authorities” or questioning the political narrative of the moment. We’ve seen scientists blacklisted for sharing evidence that the pandemic began in a Chinese lab.”

“We’ve seen vital reporting about Joe and Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings—information that voters needed and deserved to hear—ruthlessly suppressed and erased from the internet just weeks before a presidential election,” he added. “And as everyone knows, we’ve seen a sitting president of the United States effectively silenced by a small oligarchy of tech titans and “mainstream” media corporations.”

“The corruption of these platforms cannot be ignored,” Trump stated emphatically. “We have fallen far down the ‘slippery slope’ of censorship in our country, and the topics that Americans are increasingly forbidden to debate are among the most important issues of our day.”

Not stopping there, Trump proceeded to explain that censorship and cancel culture have very serious real-world consequences, which is why they can’t be ignored.

“The new age of censorship is a disaster for our country,” Trump said. “Things were far better in the days when we had our debates fiercely and openly, and then we could move forward together, as Americans, with both sides knowing that their voice, and their best arguments, had been heard.”

That’s why Trump is taking action.

“To take on Big Tech censorship, we are creating a ‘Big Tent’ platform: Truth Social. We are inviting people of all political stripes and all different viewpoints to come and participate once again in the great American debate,” Trump said.

“That’s what our country is supposed to be about. Unlike with the Big Tech platforms, there will be no shadow-banning, throttling, demonetizing, or messing with algorithms for political manipulation,” he added. “We will not be treating users like lab rats for social experiments, or labeling alternative views as ‘disinformation.’ We will not silence our fellow citizens simply because they might be wrong—or worse, because we think that Americans’ can’t handle the truth.'”

Trump concluded his blistering statement by doubling down and making it clear that he has no intention of just going away quietly.

“In the end, a small number of powerful people who all think the same and wish to silence anyone who thinks differently cannot be trusted to control almost every major media, technology, and entertainment company in America,” Trump said. “I am determined to break their chokehold over the voices of the American People—not just for myself and my own supporters, but for the United States of America!”

This piece was written by James Samson on October 26, 2021. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.

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