After Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion, veteran GOP operative Roger Stone thought he was safe to return to the platform after being permanently banned in 2017.
But his homecoming didnât last long, as the longtime ally of ex-president Donald Trump was re-banned within hours of creating his new account.
âWell bitches Iâm back on Twitter,â Stone bragged on Telegram early Thursday morning. âIâm anxious to see how strong Elon Muskâs commitment to free speech is.â
After the new account, @RogerStoneUSA, was connected to the self-described âdirty trickster,â he was banned within minutesâagain.
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Reached for comment by The Daily Beast, Stone said, âI posted a new account to prove a point,â adding: âI look forward to whoever made the decision to suspend my account getting fired. Attn: Elon Musk.â
In 2017, Stone was initially banned from Twitter after hurling a series of vulgarities at CNN hosts on the platform.
âMy new Twitter account was suspended after just six hours. So much for free speech,â he further wrote after getting the boot. âJust makes me like Telegram all the more.â
In other Stone news, he has recently launched his own nightly show The Stone Zone on Frank Speech, the streaming platform created by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, and claimed he was being censored on his pal Trumpâs social-media site Truth Social.