Kamala Harris asks Twitter CEO to suspend Trump account

Harris accused Trump of violating Twitter’s rules that its users may not threaten “violence against an individual or a group of people” or “attempt to harass, intimidate, or silence someone else’s voice.”

She cited a handful of Trump’s tweets from the past week, calling them “blatant threats.”

“I believe the President’s recent tweets rise to the level that Twitter should consider suspending his account,” she wrote. “Others have had their accounts suspended for less offensive behavior. And when this kind of abuse is being spewed from the most powerful office in the United States, the stakes are too high to do nothing.

“No user, regardless of their job, wealth, or stature should be exempt from abiding by Twitter’s user agreement, not even the President of the United States,” she added.

Twitter did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.

An anonymous whistleblower’s complaint about Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as other interactions between Trump and Ukraine, prompted House Democrats to begin a formal impeachment inquiry into the president last week.

Trump has sought to cast doubt on the whistleblower’s credibility and has attacked Schiff, D-Calif., for reading his characterization of the president’s call with Zelensky during a hearing with acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire last week. On Monday, Trump suggested Schiff should be arrested “for treason.” He also received criticism for quoting a pastor who warned impeachment could lead to a “Civil War like fracture” in the country in another series of tweets.

The letter from Harris follows her Monday appearance on CNN, during which she suggested Trump’s account “should be suspended.”