Fox Business regular Charlie Gasparino wants us to believe he doesn't really condone Trump's actions on January 6th while carrying water for him at the same time. What a pathetic display.
December 11, 2022

Fox Business regular Charlie Gasparino wants us to believe he doesn't really condone Trump's actions on January 6th while carrying water for him at the same time. What a pathetic display.

Here he is on this Sunday's Media Buzz with Howard Kurtz, griping as they've been doing for weeks now, pretty much every single hour of every single day, about Twitter supposedly shadow banning conservatives, and pretending that Trump somehow didn't deserve to be knocked off of the platform after inciting a riot at the Capitol on January 6th.

KURTZ: Just last night we learned that the day after the capitol riot safety director Yoel Roth, who once announced actual Nazis in the Trump White House, said CEO Jack Dorsey had approved a five strikes and you're out plan, and, therefore, Donald Trump only had one strike against him because of January 6th and needed four more for a permanent ban.

The very next day, boom, they threw that out, they changed the policy, they permanently banned Donald Trump and they dropped the exception for world leaders because they're important, and Roth agreed that a ban was the thing everyone wants. Your thoughts.

GASPARINO: Yeah. I mean, it's so crazy that the ayatollahs and, you know, despots around the world have Twitter the accounts where they can spout just about anything, any sort of racist stuff, you know? I don't know, but I'm pretty sure Louie Farrakhan probably has a Twitter account, and Donald Trump doesn't.

Now, you know, listen, I'm not -- listen, Twitter's a private company. They do have to, you know, they have to have some responsibility for people inciting violence, but if you look at exactly what Donald Trump said on Twitter, it did not exactly incite violence.

He actually said, you know, go peacefully. I mean, I remember the words, and I'm not condoning what he did during that day, but if you're going to be really specific, you know, what he's done was no worse than what the ayatollahs have done on that platform, but they banned him.

KURTZ: Right, well, let's get to January 6th, because this came from journalist Matt Taibbi. Starting a week before the election, Yoel Roth and Twitter increasingly suppressed the reach of Trump's tweets. In other words, reached far, far fewer people. And on January 6th one executive, one top executive said after Trump told the protesters go home, we love you, it's gut-wrenching. He's a horrible human being. This is in the files. So do you agree with Elon Musk who says Twitter had become a Democratic party activist machine?

GASPARINO: Well, what do you think? I mean, yeah. I mean, you know, I just find it fascinating that Jack Dorsey went before Congress and said there was no shadow banning.

I think they need to bring him back and say, okay, under oath, what did you mean by that.

Nothing like carrying water for insurrectionists Howie and Charlie. There's nothing they won't justify if it allows them to play the conservative victim card.

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