Donald Trump is prepared to do everything he can to win his lawsuit against Big Tech companies Facebook, Twitter and Google, including giving a deposition.
After he announced his lawsuit against the tech companies he was interviewed by Bill O’Reilly and said that he would sit for a deposition, Mediaite reported.
“They are gonna want to take a deposition from you” O’Reilly said, meaning they are going to want to ask about the January 6 incident at the Capitol. “You gonna sit for a deposition?”
“Sure. I mean, I look forward to it actually,” he said. “I love talking about the election fraud.”
Trump announced his lawsuit against the tech giants on Wednesday.
Today in conjunction with the America first policy Institute, I’m filing as the lead class representative, a major class action lawsuit against the big tech giants, including Facebook, Google and Twitter, as well as their CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai and Jack Dorsey, three real nice guys.
We’re asking the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida to order an immediate halt to social media companies’ illegal, shameful censorship of the American people, and that’s exactly what they are doing. We’re demanding an end to the shadow banning, a stop to the silencing and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing and canceling that you know so well. Our case will prove this censorship is unlawful, it’s unconstitutional and it’s completely un-American.
“We all know that very, very well. Our filing also seeks injunctive relief to allow prompt restitution and really restoration and you can name about 20 other things and it has to be prompt because it’s destroying our country. Of my accounts, in addition, we are asking the court to impose punitive damages on these social media giants. We’re going to hold big tech very accountable. This is the first of numerous other lawsuits, I assume that would follow. But this is the lead and I think it’s going to be a very, very important game changer for our country. It will be a pivotal battle in the defense of the first amendment. And in the end, I am confident that we will achieve a historic victory for American freedom and at the same time freedom of speech. So I want to thank all of the exceptional legal team behind this effort,” he said.
Alan Dershowitz, one of the most famous law professors in the United States, said that Trump’s case is a First Amendment case.
“This is the most important First Amendment case of the 21st Century,” he said on the Fox News show “Hannity.”
“It’s important because it pits freedom of speech on the one hand against the First Amendment on the other hand. That may sound paradoxical, but remember, it’s the high-tech giants that are banning freedom of speech. They are censoring but they’re claiming the right to do so under the First Amendment so they’re using the First Amendment as a sword against freedom of speech. That’s why I call this ‘the new censorship,’” he said.
But others have argued that the case is not a First Amendment case as Facebook, Twitter and Google are private companies.
“It’s not a First Amendment case. And Dershowitz, delusional though he is, knows this,” Constitutional law professor Miranda Yaver said, Yahoo News reported.
“Tomorrow I’m suing Fox News for not having me on every day, and the NY Times for not publishing my OpEds, because First Amendment. Awww, just kidding. Unlike delusional Dershowitz, I read the First Amendment and it does not apply to private sector companies.,” California Rep. Ted Lieu said on Twitter.
But Trump argued that the big tech companies work with the government, but no evidence was given to prove that claim.
“In recent years, we have also seen increasing coordination between big tech, giants and government agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control,” he said.