In an email sent late on Wednesday night titled "I'm taking on Big Tech," Trump sent his supporters a rallying call to action. The twist - it was worded in a similar way to Churchill's famous World War II speech, known as "We shall fight on the beaches."
"Today, my team and I announced our plan to Take On Big Tech. We are SUING the big tech tyrants: Facebook, Twitter & Google," wrote Trump in a campaign email sent on Wednesday night.
"This lawsuit is just the beginning and just one part of a bigger fight. This suit isn't the whole battle: it's an opening shot," Trump wrote.
"We'll fight in the courts, we'll fight in the legislatures, and we'll fight at the ballot boxes until the American people have their rights and sovereignty restored," the former president continued.
"We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be," said Churchill to the House of Commons on June 4, 1940. "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."
"We're demanding an end to the shadow banning, a stop to the silencing, a stop to the blacklisting, banishing, and canceling that you know so well," Trump said on Wednesday.
The lawsuits escalate an ongoing tussle between the former president and social media platforms after they suspended him following the January 6 Capitol riot.
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