'Don't be afraid of Covid. Don't let it dominate your life. We have developed…some really great drugs & knowledge,' Trump tweeted in 2020.
Above, former President Donald Trump speaks during an event at his Mar-a-Lago home on November 15 in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump said on Monday that the FBI tried to"shut" him down in 2020 for tweeting about his COVID recovery and asking his followers on Twitter not to be"afraid" of the virus in the midst of the pandemic.
Baker at the time reportedly emailed Twitter's former legal executive Stacia Cardille and former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth about Trump's COVID tweet, asking why it doesn't violate the platform's COVID-19 policy, according to a screenshot of the email
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