Former US President Donald Trump posted on Facebook and YouTube Friday for the first time since his accounts were suspended two years ago following the attack on the Capitol building.
“I’m back!” the former Republican leader, who is seeking to run for a second term in 2024, wrote alongside a 12-second video excerpt from his victory speech after the 2016 election, in which he says, “Sorry to keep you waiting – complicated business.”
The blue site blocked Trump’s account the day after the January 6, 2021 insurrection, when a mob of his supporters tried to stop Joe Biden’s inauguration by storming the Capitol in Washington.
Last December, a US congressional committee recommended that Trump be prosecuted for his role in the Capitol attack.
Trump’s Twitter account, which has 88 million followers, was also banned immediately after the riots, prompting the 76-year-old Republican to reach out to his supporters on his own platform, “Truth Social,” where he has fewer than five million followers.
The new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, reactivated Trump’s account on the platform last November, days after the former president announced his decision to run for another presidential term, but he has not posted any tweets yet.
