Trump returns to social media for the first time since January 6th, 2020, and Mika Brzezinksi has some thoughts on what that means for the future of the 2020 Democratic primary race. Plus, President Trump is back on social media, and Elon Musk is in hot water with the EU.
00:04:31.920But I think when we see him coming back, when you see him getting in there.
00:04:35.740And by the way, this this video that he's going to be doing, not a video, rather this space he's going to be doing later.
00:04:42.700Apparently, the European Commission is upset about this.
00:04:46.800So the European Commission has just written a letter to Elon Musk calling for him to censor President Trump tonight.
00:04:54.760There, Mr. Musk, I'm writing to you in the context of recent events in the United Kingdom and relation to the planned broadcast on your platform of a live conversation between the U.S. presidential candidate and yourself, which will also be accessible to users in the EU.
00:05:12.040We are currently they are currently doing the international stress test of the program.
00:05:16.780In this context, I am compelled to remind you of the due diligence obligation set out in the Digital Services Act, as outlined in my previous letter, as the individual entity ultimately controlling a platform with over 300 million users for a fight, of which one third in the EU that has been designated a very large online platform.
00:05:38.120You have the legal obligation to ensure excess compliance with the EU law, and in particular, the DSA in the EU.
00:26:55.220It's not just the tips of waiters and waitresses that Kamala and Walsh are going to come after.
00:27:01.040They're going to come after the tips of all the OnlyFans girls that you see on the Whatever Podcast, too.
00:27:06.220So y'all ladies need to get your stuff together because Kamala's coming through your pockets, too.
00:27:11.820Everybody, there is no way this administration is going to give up revenue and give up taxes.
00:27:16.960Donald Trump needs to hit this hard and make sure everyone understands that Kamala Harris and the Biden administration and a possible Kamala Harris administration are going to spill away your money.
00:28:00.200When your stocks go up, that's unrealized gains because you haven't sold them yet.
00:28:04.240But then, of course, if the stocks go down, you still own the taxes anyway, plus you just lost all that money.
00:28:09.660These are the most radical economic policies that we've ever heard espoused from a presidential candidate for office in the United States ever, ever.
00:28:19.160No one has ever said anything that crazy.
00:28:20.980Bill Clinton didn't run around talking about wealth confiscation.
00:28:27.680One of the other things, just what I was thinking about for Trump and Twitter is what would be great to see is have Trump actually at one of his rallies.
00:28:37.340I think he's doing one at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania later this week.
00:28:40.060Have him go up there and talk to the crowd and make a tweet in real time.
00:28:47.540And then he can get whoever gets the biggest, you know, throughout like multiple choice and whoever gets the biggest applause line, it's almost like Mad Libs, right?
00:29:19.220The tweet itself, but then also the fact that you got to see the crafting of the tweet by Trump and the people themselves.
00:29:27.460And so this idea is you've got to do it.
00:29:29.880Now, the other thing, and I will say this is something that unfortunately that the Assassin's Bullet robbed us of, is the idea of having Trump with the people.
00:29:40.140What were some of the most powerful images you saw of Donald Trump in this entire election?
00:29:45.160Well, it was when his trial was going on.
00:29:48.420And so he was running around, and this was just talking about this a minute ago, going to those bodegas, going to see the construction workers, going to attend the funeral of the police officer who lost his life out there on Long Island, being with the officers of the NYPD, which, of course, is Trump's hometown.
00:30:06.240So being and interacting with the people in events like that, I don't know how possible that is now, given the security posture and the security situation around the president.
00:30:17.080But that being said, that being said, you know how you get around that town halls, go to the go to town halls, take random questions, bring in people who are Democrats, bring in people who are liberals, bring in people who are uncommitted and have them just answering basic questions of President Trump.
00:30:34.820Him in one of those settings, having people walk up and ask random questions, putting the reps in, invite Kamala.
00:33:13.560Well, so did it, I suppose, and now we're looking about 10 days ago, you wrote this piece in The Federalist, and now here comes the EU.
00:33:21.620So you wrote about the FBI, quote unquote, briefing about potential threats on the company's platforms to X and other social media like Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, etc.
00:33:35.900And now all of a sudden the EU is coming on and sounds awful similar.
00:33:41.680Yeah, this is a 2020 book, but they've now kind of redoubled their efforts.
00:33:46.760And so, you know, back in 2020, Elon Musk did not own Twitter.
00:33:50.240But, you know, liberals and left-wing activists did own social media companies.
00:33:54.020And we know how that went over when the FBI essentially went to these companies and said there might be a dump of mis- or disinformation, i.e., the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:34:03.860They throttled the reach across all platforms.
00:34:05.840It's why The New York Post and Trump officials were locked out of their Twitter accounts.
00:34:09.540You fast forward to today, and Elon Musk now owns Twitter and has made it, you know, the de facto public square for free speech.
00:34:16.160And you have outside-influenced actors like the EU threatening Elon Musk for exercising his American right to free speech because they want to influence American elections.
00:34:30.180So the fact that you bring that up is so important.
00:34:32.880I've only ever had the opportunity, I was on Spaces, to ask Elon Musk a question one time.
00:34:39.020And probably something I could do more of, but I haven't really, hasn't been something we've been focused on.
00:34:43.220But I was on this sort of, like, super space with him, and Vivek was there, and Alex Jones popped on, and, like, Andrew Tate.
00:34:50.160And it was this whole just massive thing.
00:34:55.580And we're all sort of going around asking questions, ALX.
00:34:59.140And it came around to me, and I said, look, you know, Mr. Musk, the one question that I have for you that you've done a great –
00:35:06.380this is when they had just exposed the Twitter files, which really got into everything that had been done in 2020 regarding the FBI collusion with Twitter to censor.
00:35:15.440And Yul Roth is all up in this, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:35:20.800And I said, that's incredible work that you've done in releasing these files.
00:35:23.700But we have an election that's also coming up this year.
00:35:28.020And so my question was, what happens if the FBI comes around again and says the same thing?
00:35:34.320And they want you to censor something that you believe is public, is legal information, right?
00:35:42.420So not like doxing or something like that, you know, or, you know, I don't know, like revenge porn, those types of things, that would you censor it?
00:35:51.940And Elon basically over the space just said very clearly, I would take them to court.
00:35:58.000And I said, okay, what if the jury rules against you?
00:36:00.460What if you lose in court and the FBI says you still have to censor that information?
00:36:05.140And Elon said, then I'd be willing to go to jail.
00:36:08.100I said, okay, that's a pretty good standard if that's what it actually comes to you.
00:36:12.980And, of course, as an interview, you know that once your interviewer gives you a question like – or gives you a response like that, you know,
00:36:18.320that's probably the end of the questions, that he's not going to go any further than that.
00:36:21.940But that being said, do you see anything on the horizon that would go down these lines?
00:36:27.040Do you think the FBI, the national security agencies are perhaps laying the groundwork for more of this censorship,
00:36:33.580maybe not on X, but on some of the other platforms?
00:36:36.700Well, I think the Supreme Court laid the groundwork in their Murphy v. Missouri decision.
00:36:41.220I mean, that would just essentially obliterate the First Amendment, all because Amy Coney Barrett decided that the states lacked standing.
00:36:48.320Now, going back to the general idea here, though, is that this is all revolving around election time, right?
00:36:54.560Democrats have a covert operation to censor any kind of information about elections,
00:36:59.340whether you're questioning the process of elections, the administration, and the outcome of elections,
00:37:04.200which you have every right to do in America, considering our government runs our elections
00:37:07.580and yet has meddled in foreign elections for years, right?
00:37:10.660And Democrats have tried to make talking about things like election integrity,
00:37:14.380which includes, in some cases, questioning election outcomes, as a third-rail topic.
00:37:20.580And they're now trying to say, OK, well, how can we censor all this information and this election information?
00:37:25.940And because they can't directly do it yet, they are going to social media companies and asking them to do their dirty work.
00:37:31.960It's why, you know, Mark Zuckerberg, he said, look, the reason we throttled the story is because the FBI said there's going to be a dump of misinformation.
00:37:38.220And he took that in conjunction with the Hunter Biden laptop story and said, OK, I'm going to put two and two together, censor this.
00:37:44.320This must be that, you know, disinformation I was warned about.
00:37:46.900And they're trying to sow the seeds of doubt now.
00:37:49.840They're trying to say, look, there's going to be foreign propaganda.
00:37:52.820There's going to be these foreign malign information operations.
00:37:55.540And they don't go into too much detail about that because they don't know what details they have to give these companies because it all depends on what will advance their political goals closer to November.
00:38:08.040And we know, by the way, and by the way, it sounds like, you know, it sounds like this is something that would be out of a Hollywood thriller or some kind of, you know, fictional movie.
00:38:18.500But we don't need to theorize as to whether or not the national security agencies would do such a thing because they already did in not just in 2020, but also in 2016.
00:38:29.520We also saw this involvement as well when it came not just to social media, but also to the dossier, the Steele dossier, all of the information that was spread out in terms of that, all the stuff that was put there.
00:38:42.400This goes out all over Twitter. So we know that these agencies and the intelligence agencies, obviously indelibly linked to that, have always seemed to play an interesting role in our elections that they haven't done in the past.
00:38:56.500Or, well, I suppose, I suppose that's another conversation.
00:39:00.360But the idea, of course, here is what so what can people do?
00:39:03.580What can people do to actually fight back and respond to something like this when they see these types of government intrusions coming in?
00:39:10.480I think back to a quote James Madison said, I think it was 1791, but don't quote me.
00:39:15.740He said, public opinion sets bounds to every government.
00:39:18.900Well, what happens, though, when public opinion is misinformed, right?
00:39:22.080When public opinion is created by a monopoly voice, the government wants to be that monopoly voice.
00:39:28.140They want to be the purveyor of all information.
00:39:30.260They tell you what's truth and you can't question it.
00:39:32.520And so in order for people to set bounds to their government, they have to make sure that they have, I think, both sides of the aisle when they're reading something.
00:39:39.960That includes, you have to go to independent journalists.
00:39:42.720Twitter is a great space for that now.
00:40:53.640Because it is the first time they've heard it.
00:40:55.820Because they exist in an information silo and in this echo chamber where they're only consuming left-wing sources.
00:41:02.920And those left-wing sources haven't reported on the fact that Donald Trump has been pushing this for at least a month or more at this point.