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spanone

(140,536 posts)
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 09:24 AM Sep 30

trmp to receive 24.5 million from youtube for Jan6 suspension

YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle lawsuit over Trump’s account suspension after Jan. 6 attack

Google’s YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit President Donald Trump brought after the video site suspended his account following the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the Capitol following the election that resulted in him leaving the White House for four years.

The settlement of the more than four-year-old case earmarks $22 million for Trump to contribute to the Trust for the National Mall and a construction of a White House ballroom, according to court documents filed Monday. The remaining $2.5 million will be paid to other parties involved in the case, including the writer Naomi Wolf and the American Conservative Union.

Alphabet, the parent of Google, is the third major technology company to settle a volley of lawsuits that Trump brought for what he alleged had unfairly muzzled him after his first term as president ended in January 2021. He filed similar cases Facebook parent Meta Platforms and Twitter before it was bought by billionaire Elon Musk in 2022 and rebranded as X.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-youtube-google-settlement-january-6-01275f67afed84402fcff0118ce698a5
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trmp to receive 24.5 million from youtube for Jan6 suspension (Original Post) spanone Sep 30 OP
That money should go to E. Jean Carroll as part of the settlement she was awarded Conjuay Sep 30 #1
Fat chance. spanone Sep 30 #2
Sick malaise Sep 30 #3
He should have gone to prison for Jan 6th. Instead, Google is helping build his ballroom kysrsoze Sep 30 #4
It's a shake down Johnny2X2X Sep 30 #5
Extortion. kentuck Sep 30 #6
Tech bros turn out to all be wimps Johonny Sep 30 #7
Alphabet could have fought it and won. Qutzupalotl Sep 30 #8

kysrsoze

(6,383 posts)
4. He should have gone to prison for Jan 6th. Instead, Google is helping build his ballroom
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 09:43 AM
Sep 30

It's a bribe, pure and simple.

Johnny2X2X

(23,537 posts)
5. It's a shake down
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 09:49 AM
Sep 30

This is how he gets his bribes, he sues someone and they settle with him in exchange for favorable treatment.

Qutzupalotl

(15,583 posts)
8. Alphabet could have fought it and won.
Tue Sep 30, 2025, 10:34 AM
Sep 30

Capitulation only makes him continue these shakedowns.

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