Trump has been expected to return to the Meta-owned platform and Twitter after both companies lifted their suspensions of his profiles.
, many of whom were spurred by false claims of widespread election fraud that Trump had spent the previous months spreading, have been arrested on charges related to the riot, according to the Department of Justice.
The 13 previous messages from Trump's Facebook account were posted on Jan. 6, 2021. The most recent one shows Trump calling on his supporters in the Capitol to "remain peaceful." Two posts before that, Trump slammed his own vice president, Mike Pence, for lacking "the courage to do what should have been done" after Pence refused to participate in Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss by rejecting key Electoral College votes.
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