A former CIA agent wants to buy Twitter to ban Donald Trump

A former CIA agent, Valerie Plame Wilson might be free from her professional commitments to the intelligence agency but she has a new security mission--to ban Trump from Twitter.

She wants @POTUS, the official handle of Donald Trump on Twitter to be taken off.

But as incomprehensible as it sounds, the means to achieve this is all the more difficult to believe.

The ex-agent is willing to buy the social networking site just so that she can ban the US president.

In all seriousness, she has launched a campaign via the help of a page called GoFundMe to buy a controlling interest in Twitter.

She writes on the company page: "Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on Twitter. From emboldening white supremacists to promoting violence against journalists, his tweets damage the country and put people in harm's way. But threatening actual nuclear war with North Korea takes it to a dangerous new level."

This, she writes after Trump recently took to Twitter to share his thoughts on North Korea:

Wilson describes his actions as"weaponizing Twitter" and added that"Tweets like this are heard around the world"and "As he uses his biggest platform to escalate the crisis, this could all-too-easily spark a military confrontation that goes nuclear."

After she launched the campaign on August 16, she has been able to raise more than $3000 and wants to hit $1 billion. The company is currently worth nearly $12 billion, with its shares going for around $16.

Some Twitteratis agreewith her:

She writes, "At the current market rate that would require over a billion dollars — but that's a small price to pay to take away Trump's most powerful megaphone and prevent a horrific nuclear war."

When she was enquired as for what might happen if they are not able to raise the desired amount, she responds with how they plan tobuy a "significant stake" in order to push the proposal at the annual stakeholder's meeting of Twitter.

As for Twitter, they have steered away from the debate and not responded to the campaign. On previous occasions, Twitter has vociferously defended Trump's use of the social media platform. On one such occasion, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that it was important for people to"hear directly from our leadership."

For those who feel her name rings a bell, Wilson is best known for her name being revealed as a CIA operative at the time of George W. Bush administration as part of a leak Wilson left the CIA in 2005 after the leak of her identity. Since she retired, she has spent her time writing several bestselling novels, raising her twin daughters, and advocating for the elimination of nuclear weapons.

(WION)