Twitter suspends Trump supporter Bill Mitchell; UPDATE: For 'Ban Evasion'

Greg P. | 7:14 PM on August 14, 2020

We have no idea why, but Twitter suspended Trump supporter Bill Mitchell on Friday:

Bill Mitchell has been suspended. pic.twitter.com/TV0gqbwb1H

— Kambree (@KamVTV) August 14, 2020

So, what happened?

Would love to know what it finally took for Twitter to sandbag Bill Mitchell

— Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken) August 14, 2020

The first indication of Twitter’s move was when the automated “Trump Alert” account noted that a number of accounts they follow had stopped following him:

Wait. What happened? pic.twitter.com/5GKMKjbIC4

— Sam Stein (@samstein) August 14, 2020

In 2016, Mitchell accurately predicted Donald Trump would win the election based on sales of Trump Halloween masks, embarrassing other pollsters and their more scientific methods of data analysis:

When Bill Mitchell's Halloween mask science was right and scientific polls were wrong… pic.twitter.com/ZiH8hoe7gy

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) November 9, 2016

We’ll keep you posted once we find out what happened:

Bill Mitchell looked like Stephen Baldwin in a Max Headroom reboot, with his soft-serve vanilla-ass hairdo. He will probably be back on Twitter next week but in the meantime, pouring one out for a legend pic.twitter.com/EcLnrdqPYN

— Jesse Hawken (@jessehawken) August 14, 2020

Update: