Donald Trump has officially asked to return to Facebook, his campaign team said on Wednesday, asking “the presidential candidate not to be silent,” writes AFP.

The former US president’s lawyer sent a letter to the platform’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, asking for a “meeting to discuss his rapid suppression” of the social network.

“We believe that the suspension of President Trump’s Facebook account has radically distorted and limited public debate,” Scott Gast said in the letter.

He calls on the platform to “promote real dialogue, not silence the presidential candidate.”

The former Republican leader was suspended from the social network for two years after his supporters attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Facebook estimated that Donald Trump could return only when “risks to public safety disappear.”

Asked by AFP on Wednesday, a spokesman for Meta, the network’s parent company, promised to make a decision on the former president’s fate “in the coming weeks”.

Donald Trump was already re-admitted to Twitter on November 19, 2022, four days after announcing his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election. He has yet to post on the account, communicating mostly through his own platform, Truth Social. (News.ro)