Elon Musk pledges to overturn Twitter’s ban on Donald Trump

Tesla boss says decision in January last year was morally bad and foolish in the extreme'

Elon Musk has said he will reverse Twitter's ban on the former US president Donald Trump if the Tesla boss completes a takeover of the social media platform.

Twitter permanently banned Trump in January 2021, citing repeated violations of company rules and its judgment that his tweets were highly likely to encourage and inspire people to replicate the criminal acts that took place at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021", referring to the attack on the building by his supporters.