US President Donald Trump’s campaign team slammed Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey for “censoring” its video, made amid the police brutality protests and unrest across American cities.
The clip, titled ‘Healing, Not Hatred’, was posted on Twitter on Thursday, but has been taken down due to what appears to be an unspecified copyright claim.
Twitter and @Jack are censoring this uplifting and unifying message from President Trump after the #GeorgeFloyd tragedy.
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) June 4, 2020
The Trump campaign said the video contains “the same speech the media refused to cover.” The group posted the same clip on YouTube and urged everyone to “make it go viral.”
In the nearly 4-minute video, Trump is heard calling the death of George Floyd a “grave tragedy,” and praising the “peaceful protesters” and “law-abiding citizens.” At the same time, Trump harshly condemned the unrest that followed many of the rallies.
What we are now seeing on the streets of our cities has nothing to do with justice and with peace. The memory of George Floyd is being dishonored by rioters, looters, and anarchists.
Trump has been engaged in a public spat with Twitter, after the company began “fact-checking” his tweets, and later flagged a tweet directed at the looters as “glorifying violence.” In the tweet in question, the president warned that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
