Former president Donald Trump warned META CEO Mark Zuckerberg that if he dares to interfere with this year’s presidential election, he will be jailed for life.
The claims come from Trump’s new book, Save America, which is due to be published next week.
The former president said the Facebook founder will “spend the rest of his life in prison” if there is proven meddling in the election.
Facebook played a key role in censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election, which had a major impact and helped Joe Biden into the White House.
“Former President Donald Trump railed against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in his upcoming book, accusing the tech tycoon of undermining him in the last election and warning of possible jail time.
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) August 28, 2024
Trump, 78, recounted meeting with Zuckerberg, 40, and seethed over the 2020 election… pic.twitter.com/XPMdIjeM6Y
The platform helped propel fake claims that the Hunter Biden story was a ‘Russian disinformation’ operation when, in fact, it was completely true.
In the book, Trump says that he is “watching him [Zuckerberg] closely” ahead of the November election.
Trump said that Zuckerberg would visit him in the White House while he served as president and “bring his very nice wife to dinners, be as nice as anyone could be,” but he was secretly mounting a “plot against the President.”
“He told me there was nobody like Trump on Facebook. But at the same time, and for whatever reason, steered it against me,” writes Trump.
“We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time, he will spend the rest of his life in prison – as will others who cheat in the 2024 presidential election.”
Trump had his Facebook account suspended after the Jan 6 riot, despite him telling protesters to remain peaceful and go home.
The former president only had his social media platform reinstated this year.
As we reported earlier this week, Zuckerberg admitted to helping the Biden administration censor conservatives in the run-up to the 2020 election and “COVID misinformation” during the pandemic but insisted they pressured him to do so.
He also admitted the platform had ‘demoted’ stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop.
The tech CEO said the “White House “repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree.”
However, he said the pressure “was wrong” and said he “regrets ‘that we were not more outspoken about it.”
“We made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today,” he added.
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