Donald Trump Jr. has said he believes he was once being silenced by Twitter because one of his posts only got a handful of retweets on the platform.

The president’s son told CNBC’s Sara Eisen on Wednesday that he noticed a huge change in what he dubbed “Twitter 1.0″ around 2016 when he woke one morning to discover a post of his had only garnered a mere 5 retweets.

“[People would ask me] ‘How do you know they’re manipulating the algorithm?’” he said, recalling those terrifying years. “’Because yesterday, I was getting 5,000 retweets a post. Today, I got 5. Single-digit. 5. Something changed!’”

“Maybe it was a bad post?” suggested Eisen.

“I can tell when it’s a bad post,” Don Jr. fired back. “Sometimes I hit that send button, I know it’s a banger.“

The 47-year-old then accused Twitte

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