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Jul 12 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Former Twitter employee: “I was concerned the former president, for the first time, was speaking directly to extremist organizations and giving them directives.” #January6thCommitteeHearings
"If President Trump were any other user on Twitter, he would have been permanently suspended a very long time ago." #January6thCommitteeHearings
Former Twitter employee, knowing that extremists were ready to take up arms: "Trump posting this tweet on Dec 19th was essentially staking a flag in D.C. on Jan 6 for his supporters to come and rally." #January6thCommitteeHearing
Former Twitter employee: “What shocked me was the responses to [Trump’s] tweets. There were a lot of the ‘locked and loaded,’ ‘stand back stand by,’ ‘ready for civil war part two’.” #January6thCommitteeHearing
More communications ⬇️ #January6thCommitteeHearing
Former Twitter employee: "If we made no intervention into what I saw occurring, people were going to die. And on January 5, I realized no intervention was coming... We were at the mercy of a violent crowd that was locked and loaded." #January6thCommiteeHearings

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