YouTube restores Trump’s channel

YouTube is reinstating former US president Donald Trump’s account, the video-sharing platform said on Friday, more than two years after he was banned over the US Capitol insurrection.

The 76-year-old Republican leader — who is running for president again — has been unable to post any content and his 2.6 million followers were blocked from commenting on old videos.

YouTube benched Trump days after the January 6, 2021 insurrection, when a mob of his supporters seeking to halt the certification of his election defeat to Joe Biden stormed the US Capitol in Washington.