Trump frames new social media empire as selfless effort to counter Big Tech

It’s not all about me — or the money. Former President Donald Trump asserted on Tuesday that his planned new social media company is an altruistic effort to give a voice to his supporters who have been “silenced by Big Tech” — not a big-bucks scam to raise quick cash. “This is about saving our country. America has always been a nation of smart, spirited, and independent people who take pride in thinking for themselves,” Trump said in an uncharacteristically lengthy and in-depth statement. “We have fallen far down the “slippery slope” of censorship in our country, and the topics that Americans ...