GALLAGHER: “Acting Customs and Border Protection commissioner Mark Morgan facing off with Twitter after the site blocked his account for praising the ongoing construction of the wall at the southern border. Twitter says Morgan’s Tweet violated its rules for hateful conduct. Commissioner Mark Morgan joins us now. Commissioner, welcome to you, sir. We appreciate you coming on. I want to put your Tweet, your disputed Tweet, up on the screen if I can. It says, basically quoting here, ‘We continue to build a new wall every day, every mile helps us stop gang members, murderers, sexual predators and drugs from entering our country.’ And I guess my question would be, if you dispute the Tweet that you put out there in your Twitter, why not pick up the phone, call the F.B.I., call Homeland Security and say, ‘Hey, is this accurate?’ Because we have reported that MS-13 gang members coming into the United States has dropped in recent years, and so that right there, at least partly, justifies your tweet. Your thoughts?”
MORGAN: “Absolutely. Look, it’s all they had to do, was reach out to us, ask us to provide some information, the data and the facts behind that, and we could have done that. Actually, we’ve done that quite often, Trace. I’ve actually tweeted out the very facts. If they would have looked at their own Twitter ability and what they’ve allowed out, they would have seen the facts are out there to back that up. But Trace, let’s be very clear about this. What they’re wanting to do and what they tried to do is obvious. My message that I have been sending out there, that this president has been overwhelmingly successful to give us the tools like the wall and policies to address the illegal immigration crisis that we’ve faced last year, and I’ve been vocal against the critics whose policies want to undo that, and open borders that would drive another massive crisis. That’s the narrative that didn’t fit their agenda. That’s what they were trying to close down.”
GALLAGHER: “And we want to remind the audience that what they categorized your tweet as is hateful. Now you go back and the tweet from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini calling for the destruction of Israel, saying the Holocaust was fake, those apparently were not. And here is Jack Dorsey in the hearings this week, responding to that. Watch.”
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DORSEY: “We did not find those to violate our terms of service because we considered them saber-rattling, which is part of the speech of world leaders in concert with other countries.”
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GALLAGHER: “Ayatollah is saber-rattling, you’re hateful. What do you say to Twitter when that response comes out?”
MORGAN: “Actually, what I want to say to your listeners and the American people, listen to that. That’s absurd. What every American citizen should be worried about now is Jack. That man, he gets to decide. He is the judge, jury and executioner about what is appropriate to say or not under the founding principles of our Constitution that made this country what it is. That is un-American. He should not have that ability and we should all be united to make sure that this ends.”
GALLAGHER: “It is fascinating. The Federalist that broke the story yesterday morning in fact we reported it right after they broke it. They make a very good point writing quoting in recent weeks the commissioner meaning you had been free to publish content on the cite touting the accomplishments of border agents and keeping Americans safe. Not what recently changed that resulted in the account shut down when other similar posts went unblocked. What has changed. You’ve been in contact with Twitter. What’s the change over the past few days?”
MORGAN: “Trace, that’s a great question. What has changed recently. I saw a report that said although immigration specifically illegal immigration and our fight to address that has not made the national attention like it has in the past year, it has gone up by 250% on Twitter. So in my opinion with just days left in an election what they saw was the immigration narrative starting to shift to show what the president has done and success he has had. My opinion that’s what they were trying to stop. That’s what they are trying to censor. Again, how unamerican can this be?”
GALLAGHER: “Twitter has reversed its decision on your account of an appeal. Quickly, what appeal. What was the reversal based on? I have 10 seconds.”
MORGAN: “Trace, that don’t pass the B.S. Test. We filed an appeal. They denied it. The American people spoke. Went viral and went after Twitter. Only then they said they had made a mistake. We know what happened.”