Truth Social's bitter infighting

Full story: Co-founder of Trump’s media company details Truth Social’s bitter infighting

We published an exclusive story with one of the co-founders of Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group, who outlined how the company's plans for social media domination gave way to internal conflict, technical screw-ups and a chaotic jockeying for power.

As whistleblower complaints go, this is a fascinating one. Will Wilkerson was so central to the operation that he personally posted Trump's first "truth":

Will Wilkerson, then an executive at former president Donald Trump’s start-up Trump Media & Technology Group, was at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., coffee shop with company co-founder Andy Litinsky last October when Trump called Litinsky with a question: Would he give up some of his shares to Trump’s wife, Melania?

Trump Media, the owner of the fledgling social network Truth Social, had just been boosted by a huge merger agreement and a flood of investment that had made the stake worth millions of dollars. Trump had already been given 90 percent of the company’s shares in exchange for the use of his name and some minor involvement, leaving everyone else to split the rest.

Litinsky tried to brush it off, telling Trump “the gift would have meant a huge tax bill he couldn’t pay,” Wilkerson said in an interview. “Trump didn’t care. He said, ‘Do whatever you need to do.’”

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