Valerie Plame Wilson, a former CIA operations officer, is trying to buy Twitter so she can ban US President Donald Trump from the social media site.
She has launched a campaign to raise money to buy a controlling interest in the social media site in order shut down Trump’s Twitter account.
“Twitter is a publicly traded company. Shares [equal] power,” her page on the crowd funding website “GoFundMe” reads. “This GoFundMe will fund the purchase of a controlling interest in Twitter.”
Wilson, whose cover was blown in a leak during the George W. Bush administration, has said she needs more than $1 billion to purchase a controlling share of the social media giant. The company is currently worth nearly $12 billion, with its shares going for around $16.
“But that’s a small price to pay to take away Trump’s most powerful megaphone and prevent a horrific nuclear war,” Wilson says on the page.
“Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on…