The back-and-forth between Trump and Twitter overlooks the broader (and more important) question of why Trump has been allowed to push any number of demonstrably false statements on social media without being punished for it. | Analysis by CillizzaCNN
That's the question that kept running through my head this week as Twitter:1. Appended a fact check to a tweet from President Donald Trump alleging that mail-in balloting was a Democratic scheme to rig the 2020 election.2. Posted a warning on a second Trump tweet on the unrest in Minnesota that the social media giant said"violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence.
In each episode of his weekly YouTube show, Chris Cillizza will delve a little deeper into the surreal world of politics. Click to subscribe! But all of that back-and-forth between Trump and Twitter overlooks the broader question of why Trump has been allowed to push any number of demonstrably false statements via Twitter without ever once being punished for doing so.As recently as this week, Trump continued to suggest -- with no factual evidence -- that former Rep. Joe Scarborough had somehow been involved in the death of a female staffer in his district office in 2001.
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