Following an amicable agreement with Elon Musk, Donald Trump is expected to receive $ 10 million in compensation.
Soon $ 10 million in Donald Trump’s pocket. Elon Musk is indeed ready to take out his checkbook to compensate the President of the United States. But for what reasons? You have to go back to January 6, 2021, the day of the memorable attack on the Capitol, to understand the start of the case. A few hours after this event, the Twitter platform had frozen the account of the Republican billionaire, considering that he had prompted the demonstrators to take action.
“After examining the recent tweets of the @REALDONALDTRUMP account and the context that surrounds them – in particular how they are received and interpreted on Twitter and outside – we have definitively suspended due to the risk of additional incitement To violence, “said the company.
This suspension lasted almost two years, before Elon Musk, who became the majority shareholder of Twitter, raised it, in November 2022. In the meantime, Donald Trump had assigned Twitter to court as well as his leader of the time, Jack Jack Dorsey, who has since left the group. Dismissed at first instance, he called in 2022.
The richest American president in history
Trump lawyers initially planned to abandon the procedure without compensation, before finally deciding an amicable agreement with X, today held by Elon Musk, reports the Wall Street Journal. This sum of $ 10 million (around 9.5 million euros) will therefore soon be donated as compensation to the richest American president in history, whose fortune amounts to almost 6.5 billion dollars according to Bfmtv. During the last presidential election, Elon Musk had already devoted 277 million his personal fortune to support the former real estate developer.
At the end of January, the Meta group – owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp in particular – also agreed to compensate the head of state up to 25 million dollars (around 24 million euros), to have suspended his account on Facebook in 2021. For Les Echosit would seem that most of the great technologies have been looking to spare their relations with Donald Trump since his arrival at the head of the country. Meta boss, Mark Zuckerberg, has also made a profound change in the strategy of his social networks which he now aligns with the policy of the new American administration.