WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday tried to walk back a Twitter threat to respond with deadly force to three days of violent protests in Minneapolis over the police killing of an unarmed black man.
“Looting leads to shooting … I don’t want this to happen, and that’s what the expression put out last night means,” Trump said on Twitter, hours after the social network for the first time slapped a warning on one of his Tweets for “glorifying violence.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, and some congressional Democrats denounced the initial threat, which warned “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
Trump signed an executive order on Thursday threatening new regulations on social media firms.
He relies heavily on Twitter to bring his message directly to his 80 million followers on the site, but also has repeatedly accused it and other social media sites of censuring conservatives….
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