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The unprecedented censorship of President Donald Trump and his campaign continued as the team’s ability to reach supporters through emails has been blocked.
Shortly after the president and his campaign were permanently banned from Twitter, their email service provider suspended the account’s connection to millions of supporters. Campaign Monitor, the company used by the president’s campaign team, confirmed the move to the Financial Times.
“The self-service account associated with the Donald Trump Campaign has been suspended as of today, January 7th, 2021,” Campaign Monitor said in a statement.
“Typically, political campaigns use multiple email service providers to send campaign, fundraising and other emails. Based on the low volume of emails that had been sent from the Campaign Monitor account, this is likely a very small portion of total email activity from the campaign,” the company claimed.
Here’s @CampaignMonitor‘s statement. I had been trying to pin down the other possible (likely bigger) providers. If you have any insight — please get in touch. DMs open, email in bio. pic.twitter.com/Y9Rbn6NfiW
— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeFT) January 9, 2021
Dave Lee of the Financial Times noted in a tweet that there “hasn’t been any Trump emails for more than 48 hours.”
“Almost unheard of — he sent 33 in the first six days of Jan; 2,500+ last year,” he added.
There hasn’t been any Trump emails for more than 48 hours. Almost unheard of — he sent 33 in the first six days of Jan; 2,500+ last year. (h/t @TrumpEmail)
At least one of the services the team used, @CampaignMonitor, has suspended Trump’s access, the company confirmed.
— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeFT) January 9, 2021
Others also noted the frequency of campaign emails and the fact that none have been received since the reported suspension.
After multiple appeals per day, the last time the Trump campaign sent a fundraising email to supporters was yesterday at 1:22p. The last text message came yesterday at 1:29p. Since then, silence. By my count, the campaign has sent >606 emails and 217 texts since election night. pic.twitter.com/3PZ8Bwx6aa
— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) January 7, 2021
Per @TrumpEmail, yesterday was the first day since April that the Trump campaign (or its RNC joint fundraising committee) did not send a fundraising email.
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) January 8, 2021
As of this morning, still no fundraising solicitations from the Trump campaign. This may be the longest gap I’ve ever seen.
— Carrie Levine (@levinecarrie) January 8, 2021
Lee apparently looked into the situation more closely.
Twilio spokesman: “Upon investigation, we were able to locate account(s) related to Trump Wineries and Trump Realty.”
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— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeFT) January 9, 2021
He later emphasized that Trump “has not been banned from sending emails,” but just from Campaign Monitor’s server, noting that the Trump team uses other providers who may not have made a decision to cut access.
The president has not been banned from sending emails. https://t.co/gTddXUmVrZ
— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeFT) January 9, 2021
I should say at this point, given people saying “Trump is cut off from email” on various forums, that we don’t know if that’s the case — as Campaign Monitor points out below, the campaign uses a large number of different providers. So we’ll see. https://t.co/eimVKenYhM
— Dave Lee (@DaveLeeFT) January 9, 2021
The moves by Big Tech to cut off the President of the United States from multiple platforms, as well as targeting conservative accounts, has been met with glee by the left. But, as many of Trump’s supporters jettisoned their accounts in backlash, others warned about the larger implications.
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Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh deactivated his Twitter account which reportedly had 88.6 million followers and others noted the purge of followers on their accounts.
Twitter, the “public forum” for free speech, has deleted 15,000 followers from my account in the last few hours.
There is no point engaging in a national conversation on a “forum” that is in actual fact a propaganda organ.
God bless America.
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 7, 2021
Actress and model Emily Ratajkowski called out “big tech’s rollout of censorship” earlier this week following the storming of the U.S. Capitol.
“This gives Facebook/tech/Zuck THE MOST POWER. If he can shut the president up/off he can shut any of us up/off,” she tweeted.
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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida where she has been writing for the BizPacReview team since 2015.
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