Trump lays out his anti-censorship agenda for 2024 presidential campaign

Trump lays out his anti-censorship agenda for 2024 presidential campaign

The Republican front-runner unveils his plans to take on censorship by tech companies if he wins the 2024 presidential election.

Former president and current GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump announced Thursday afternoon his "anti-censorship" agenda to defend free speech in the United States.

"If we don't have free speech, we simply don't have a free country. It's as simple as that," the former president said in a video posted exclusively by journalist Jack Posobiec, who is working on Trump's re-election campaign. "If this most fundamental right is allowed to perish, the rest of our rights and freedoms will collapse like dominoes: they will fall one by one," he sentenced.

"Today I am announcing my plan to end the left-wing censorship regime and reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans," he said.

Trump referenced the recent Twitter Files revelations leaked by Elon Musk in partnership with journalists Matt Taibbi, Michael Schellenberger and Bari Weiss, saying that a sinister group of state officials, social media companies and far-left militants "collaborated to suppress vital information on everything from elections to public health."

The former president referred to this group as the "censorship cartel" and promised that if elected in 2024 he will work tirelessly to see that they are "dismantled and destroyed to the fullest extent of the law."

"Within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order prohibiting any federal department or agency from collaborating with any organization, company or person to censor, limit, categorize or impede the legitimate speech of American citizens," he assured in the speech he recorded in his office at Mar-A-Lago.