Roger Stone plans to sue Twitter for suspending his account

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October 29, 2017 9:51 PM

Roger Stone's Twitter account was suspended Saturday after he lashed out at several CNN personalities.

Roger Stone plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Twitter.
The platform suspended his account on Saturday after he lashed out at several CNN personalities on Friday.

Roger Stone, the longtime Republican strategist and an informal adviser to President Donald Trump, plans to file an antitrust lawsuit against Twitter after the company permanently suspended his account on Saturday.

"I am going to sue Twitter on multiple grounds," Stone told Business Insider on Sunday.

He did not elaborate when he would file the suit, and when asked what grounds he planned to sue Twitter on, he replied that he would let the suit "speak for itself when filed."

Stone told New York magazine, which first reported the news, that he had been advised he has a "very strong legal case."

Robert Mueller hadfiled the first chargesin his Russia investigation. Mueller is examiningRussia's interference in the 2016 election, as well as whether any members of the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the election in his favor.

After the news broke, Stone took to Twitter and lashed out at CNN's Jake Tapper and Don Lemon, as well as network commentator and New York Times columnist Charles Blow. He accused them, without evidence, of lying and called them "fake news," as well as several derogatory slurs.

He said that his criticisms of Lemon were based on the host's

Stone also tweetedout CNN's story about Mueller's charges and captioned it, "

It initially appeared that Stone's suspension from the social media platform was temporary.

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