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Ryan Merrifield

YouTube bans Donald Trump channel for week over concerns of 'potential violence'

YouTube has banned Donald Trump over concerns of "potential violence" for a "minimum of 7 days" and removed new content from his channel.

The social media platform has also "indefinitely" disabled comments on all of the channel's videos, according to a statement.

It comes days after Twitter and Facebook both barred the disgraced US President after deeming posts he published during the Capitol riots to be inciting violence.

"After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for violating our policies," a YouTube statement released on Wednesday said.

Pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol, leading to five deaths (REUTERS)

"It now has its 1st strike & is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a *minimum* of 7 days."

It went on to say: "Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump’s channel, as we’ve done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section."

Tens of thousands of accounts, pages and groups tied to the more extreme parts of the pro-Trump movement have been suspended and banned following last Wednesday's riot.

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The latest being Parler, an alternative social media network which attracted many of the President's fanatics, as well as extreme right enthusiasts.

It was removed from Apple and Google's app stores over the weekend before Amazon booted it off its hosting infrastructure.

Trump was initially only banned from Twitter for 12 hours following the riot and he then posted a video condemning the violence as "heinous" the following day.

Trump told reporters at the US-Mexico border wall he took no responsibility for the Capitol tragedy (AFP via Getty Images)

However, he was found to have been posting on the official POTUS account during his ban and it was later made indefinite.

Facebook had banned him for 24 hours and later extended this, along with sister platform Instagram, for at least the remainder of his term in office.

Mark Zuckerberg, whose Facebook, Inc owns both sites,accused Trump of failing to condemn the crowds.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg slammed Trump (AFP/Getty Images)

He said it was Facebook's view that the leader intended to use his remaining time in office to "undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor".

In his first public appearance since the riot, Trump told reporters at the US-Mexico border wall in Texas yesterday he did not take any responsibility for the chaos, which saw five people die.

He then referred to efforts to have him impeached for a second time as the "continuation of the greatest witch hunt in the history of politics".

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