Trump joins YouTube alternative Rumble to post his future videos By C. Douglas Golden, The Western Journal Published June 28, 2021 at 2:10pm
Free speech-centric YouTube alternative Rumble just scored its biggest verified member -- former President Donald Trump.
According to Reuters, Trump announced he was joining the platform on Saturday, hours before he took the stage for his first campaign-style rally event since leaving office. Trump's verified account was confirmed by Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski.
"It is a great way to reach the American people in a time of unprecedented assault on free speech in our country by Big Tech tyrants," Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington told Reuters in an email.
The move came after Trump was banned from other mainstream social media platforms, including Google's YouTube, in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol incursion. At least on YouTube, he remains banned indefinitely.
Harrington said the decision to join Rumble was made independently of the former president's announced plans to set up his own platform rather than as a replacement outlet.
Several people in Trump's circle -- including Donald Trump Jr. and former White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino -- announced Trump's move to the platform on Twitter ahead of his rally at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington, Ohio.
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